The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - Government & Military, Microsoft
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
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Microsoft wraps up investigation into Israeli military's use of its cloud platform
Posits some steps to improve effectiveness of its human rights governance
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Microsoft pledges $18bn to expand cloud and AI capacity in Australia
Will be invested by end of 2029
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Microsoft files amicus brief in support of Anthropic's DoD lawsuit
OpenAI and Google workers also file brief to quash supply chain risk designation
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Big tech makes ratepayer protection pledge for data centers at White House
Will see Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon commit to buy or build generation needed for their facilities
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US' ICE triples use of Microsoft cloud in six months
Has extensively grown use of cloud storage and AI tools
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Trump admin pushes data center companies to commit to pact on energy prices and water usage
Following earlier deal with Microsoft
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Microsoft wins $170m cloud contract from US Air Force
Contract awarded as part of the Cloud One Program
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Microsoft, CoreWeave, Google, QTS and more attend DOE Savannah River Site data center meeting
Digital Realty, Oracle, Crusoe, and other tech giants evaluate potential locations on federal land
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Microsoft and Google withhold Dutch data center energy data despite EU rules - report
Citing business confidentiality
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Three Senate Democrats send hyperscalers letters as they investigate data centers’ impact on US electricity prices
CoreWeave, Digital Realty, and Equinix also sent questions as electricity bills rise
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Trump admin plans 'US Tech Force,' a 1,000-strong workforce to accelerate AI deployment
Program gets backing from Big Tech
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Constellation secures $1bn loan from US DOE to support restart of Three Mile Island nuclear plant - report
Plant is tied to 20-year PPA with Microsoft
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Microsoft becomes first company granted export license by US gov’t to ship Nvidia GPUs to UAE
Allowed to ship the equivalent of 60,400 A100 chips, but unclear if exports have begun
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US Navy says it can't separate its custom cloud infrastructure from Microsoft Azure
Would need to start "from the ground up" if it did
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Microsoft cuts off some services to Israel's Ministry of Defense
Follows revelations that its cloud platform was being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians
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President Trump calls for Microsoft to fire global affairs president Lisa Monaco
Monaco investigated Trump's alleged election interference
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Californian county publishes RFI to migrate off Microsoft Azure
Deadline for submissions is November 3
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Microsoft agrees to $6bn cloud discount for US government
Will spread over three years
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US Defense Sec Hegseth confirms Chinese engineers no longer working on DoD's Microsoft services
"It's over," he summarizes
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Microsoft launches investigation into Israeli military surveillance agency's use of its cloud platform
While protests are staged at the company's Netherlands data center said to host surveillance data
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Israel's military surveillance agency stores masses of intelligence on Palestinians on Microsoft cloud
Microsoft's relationship with Israel is back in the hot seat
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Microsoft and Atom Computing to build "world’s most powerful quantum computer" in Denmark
The system, named Magne, is expected to be operational by 2027
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Microsoft stops using China-based engineers in US military cloud computing systems
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders review of Pentagon cloud deals
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Microsoft will "co-invest" in Aussie defense department's Azure adoption
As part of AU$495m contract
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Australian Department of Defence signs AU$495m five-year cloud deal with Microsoft
Despite massive ongoing project with AWS
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Meta joins Anduril's military XR headset effort, will compete for Soldier-Borne Mission Command Next
Anduril previously took over IVAS from Microsoft
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Singaporean Science and Tech Agency signs MoU with Google Cloud
Will use Google Distributed Cloud Air Gapped offering