Critics include Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Airbus

Gets rid of requirement previously preventing Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from vying for contracts

European Commission gives scheme the green light

Company recently received a $1bn valuation

EU proposals will be launched on Wednesday

The group wants to host systems designed for more than just scientific use

EU Data Act goes into force on January 11, 2024

Looking for somewhere to install and operate quantum sites

Hopes to break the US hyperscaler cloud monopoly

As renewable energy faces a transmission bottleneck

And will also rejoin the Copernicus Earth observation satellite program

The deal still has some obstacles

Claims that there's no verification to comments made by EC

A ban could be put in place on vendors deemed to be 'high risk'

Airbus, Eutelsat, Hispasat, SES, Thales Alenia Space, Deutsche Telekom, OHB, Orange, Hisdesat, Telespazio, and Thales all join forces

Malaysia's 5G confusion continues

Provisional agreement to subsidize EU semiconductors

But prices fall after a warm winter

Group warns that critical infrastructure could weaken

European Chips Act slowly moves forward

Will decide whether to fund the project this week

Wants to curb reliance on foreign suppliers

As part of ensuring compliance with European Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres

Launching Spanish and German regions, separate to existing OCI regions

And it plans to bring a separate system offline for maintenance, even though it might be needed during the outage

Blocking the individuals working with EU businesses

EIB to provide loans and grants for digital infrastructure projects

But individual states will have to fund most of the semiconductor push