Although the grant still has to be approved by another official body

Putting the forced sale of Tiktok's US arm in doubt

The pandemic has raised the profile of data centers. Now governments will attempt to control a sector they don't fully understand

A City Business Agreement has also been signed to power Smart Cities

Officials were worried about the residents in the area

By housing its servers in the US ByteDance could assuage data security fears

Equinix expected to be hit by Covid... that never happened

The identity of the data center company is unknown

The council still needs to buy the land before it can sell it though

The proceeds will go towards data center expansion and R&D

The markets claim they could move operations out to Dallas or elsewhere

The data centers will be built in two warehouses that have stood empty since 2018

He also took the time to clarify some of the big concerns about its security

A plan to get data solutions to the battlefield

Contractors did not wipe customer data

With a focus on China

When you've gotta go, you've gotta go - even if you're a data center

It would have the power to fine Cloud providers too

It also won an extension to legally challenge a suspension of EU-US data transfers

Took them long enough...

Oracle wasn't even considered

The legal drama that shook the EU and US digital relationship continues...

The council also provided permission for the installation of 60 emergency generators, 29 car parking spaces, and a security building

Will Oracle give up?