Microsoft details plans for data center in Langley, UK
Langley Business Centre site could be redeveloped into a data center
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UK Treasury designates big four US hyperscalers as "Critical Third Parties"
Will bring Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Oracle under direct regulatory oversight
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Microsoft UK's Thames Valley Park campus could be redeveloped as a gas-powered data center
Reading site set to head to public consultation
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UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal rules $2.8bn lawsuit against Microsoft can go to trial
Case originally filed in 2024
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Microsoft CEO says Fairwater data center site is "going live ahead of schedule"
The campus will form a cluster of hundreds of thousands of GB200 GPUs
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Microsoft Azure's UK South region experiences capacity issues - report
Customers claim they are being turned away from increasing compute
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UK's competition watchdog launches SMS investigation into Microsoft, AWS avoids further scrutiny
Latest update shared on the Cloud Services Market Investigation
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Microsoft unveils micro LED innovation to halve data center energy use
Could be cheaper to manufacture and more durable, as it is less sensitive to environmental factors
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£2.1bn lawsuit against Microsoft over cloud licensing heads to court in UK
Dr. Maria Luisa Stasi's case against Microsoft heads to the Competition Appeal Tribunal
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UK announces fourth AI Growth Zone in South Wales
But data centers were already planned at the site
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Microsoft files to build UK data center outside Leeds
Company seeks to build on land bought last year
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Lawyer calls for UK businesses to join £2bn lawsuit against Microsoft over cloud overcharging claims
Article 19's Dr Mari Stasi is seeking companies that may be due compensation
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UK supermarket Asda expands Microsoft Azure contract
After challenges from moving off of Walmart's tech stack
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Orca partners with PCSS for Nvidia-supported quantum AI integration
Plus some other quantum news from the week
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Microsoft to build UK's largest supercomputer as part of $15bn AI infrastructure push
Will feature more than 23,000 Nvidia GPUs
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Microsoft Research develops analog optical computer
Room-temperature system is more efficient at solving certain problems than binary digital computer
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"Competition is not working well," says UK CMA concluding cloud market investigation
AWS and Microsoft to undergo further "strategic market status" investigations
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Microsoft shifting data center focus away from Ireland due to lack of power availability - report
Focusing on Nordics instead
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Premier League agrees five-year cloud and AI deal with Microsoft
Here we go! Cloud giant makes big summer transfer window signing
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Microsoft's Antony Rowstron becomes first CTO at UK research agency ARIA
Rowstron worked on Silica storage and robotics, among other research efforts
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Met Office switches to Microsoft Azure-based supercomputer
In the works since 2021
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AWS claims half of Microsoft's customers would jump ship if licensing costs were lower
The UK's CMA investigation response hearings are in
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Civo partners with Orbital to pilot carbon removal technology at UK data center
Microsoft signs SAF carbon offset deal with IAG
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UK holds first meeting of new AI Energy Council
Attended by the likes of EDF, Ofgem, Google, and Microsoft
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Microsoft signs two PPAs with Energia for onshore wind power in Ireland
Tied to two projects in County Kerry and County Clare
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Microsoft hits back at UK CMA's provisional findings
Cloud providers publish their response to initial report
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UK's CMA finds elements of cloud computing market has 'adverse effect on competition'
Calls for SMS investigation into AWS and Microsoft
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£1bn Microsoft lawsuit claims it overcharged rival cloud firms’ UK customers
Thousands of businesses represented in huge Windows Server lawsuit that echoes CMA and CISPE allegations