French firm still thinks it should have won billion-pound contract; UK gov still says it was in the right

While Aruba and Danish cloud providers joing OVHcloud's complaint that Microsoft is unfairly promoting its cloud

Will pay $1.5 million to a mitigation fund to plant trees elsewhere

Companies can see the carbon footprint of their public cloud use

Company gets green light for first 250,000 sq ft building

Company allowed to resume work as local utility warns North Holland’s grid capacity is reaching its maximum

Building a business off of data sovereignty restrictions

Dept for BEIS says Atos’ proposed system was not “architecturally equivalent” to existing Met Office supercomputer and had to be excluded

Province of Noord-Holland over-rules municipality of Hollands Kroon, says Microsoft doesn’t have permit for data center

LTO challenges Microsoft’s environmental permit for data center in Hollands Kroon

As well as $420m bond

Oracle wasn't even considered

Will Oracle give up?

Big retail joins big tech

Authorities are forcing TikTok to sell up its US division or be blocked out of the US markets entirely

Both sides are giving in to anger

New Zealand hopes it can keep its data secure by letting cloud providers set up shop

Plus Microsoft considers how do deal with capacity constraints

Oracle sure isn't happy to lose out

"Time is too short, resources too thin and the impact too large to wait for all the answers to act"

IBM and Oracle eliminated from coveted race

Crikey

"This is a secretive $10 billion project with the ambition of building “a more lethal” military force overseen by the Trump Administration"

As the CLOUD Act made the lawsuit moot