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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Plans for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, data center in former Walmart building shelved amid strong local opposition
The “computing research facility” would have been attached to a larger self-storage facility
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Former Walmart in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, could become data center
Set to be considered next Monday
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Walmart spent $580m on Microsoft Azure between June 2023 and May 2024, leaked document shows
AI partnership details also accidentally shared during Microsoft conference
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White House in talks with Oracle and Microsoft over TikTok acquisition
Oracle would lead deal to acquire global operations
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AEP Ohio files settlement to meet data center demand
The filing will require new data center customers to pay for a minimum of 85 percent of the energy they say they need each month
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TikTok spent $20m a month on Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service - report
Accounting for a quarter of all spend on Azure OpenAI
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Walmart's global technology platform suffers 16 major incidents
Incidents occurred in first eight weeks of the fiscal year
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Forced sale of TikTok US to Oracle and Walmart shelved indefinitely
The Biden administration is less focused on social media
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Trump approves Oracle and Walmart TikTok deal, despite ByteDance shareholders retaining stake
Oracle nabs cloud hosting contract from Google
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Walmart joins Microsoft in joint bid to buy TikTok
Big retail joins big tech
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Walmart turns to Microsoft for cloud services over Amazon rivalry
The enemy of your enemy is your friend
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Report: Target to leave AWS after Amazon buys Whole Foods
Because nobody wants to subsidize an enemy