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#16 22 Sept
Mentioned in: Civo announces first UK edge data centre at Navigate London
European Tech Sovereignty#15 10 Sept
Mentioned in: Spain drafts hourly renewables test for data centres
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#14 4 Sept
Mentioned in: Cape Town approves five, names none
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#13 3 Sept
Mentioned in: Beacon says charity CRM database likely exported
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#14 26 Aug
Mentioned in: NVIDIA lines up $500bn for buyers
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#19 2 Aug
Mentioned in: Samsung and SoftBank bank the demand
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#12 31 Jul
Filed a Form 10-Q disclosing $137.2bn of leases not yet commenced
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Amazon's $137.2bn of leases it hasn't opened#11 30 Jul
Mentioned in: Time starts selling ads to the machines
Media's AI Pivot#19 29 Jul
Reported 1,595,000 full-time and part-time staff, up 3%
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Fewer US cuts, more of them blamed on AI#12 29 Jul
Mentioned in: The big four's combined capex holds near $732bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#12 28 Jul
Mentioned in: Dublin slips to 15% as growth heads north
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#12 24 Jul
Mentioned in: Odisha signs a $1.5bn sovereign AI park
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#11 22 Jul
Mentioned in: Alphabet lifts 2026 capex to $205bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#10 21 Jul
Mentioned in: Brussels clears the merger, at a price
Media's AI Pivot#18 21 Jul
Cut jobs inside its AGI unit's model-customisation and post-training teams
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Amazon cuts inside its own AGI unit#18 21 Jul
Mentioned in: Monday.com denies AI drove 630 job cuts
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#11 21 Jul
Received a discharge permit for its Lake Anna cooling-water needs
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Amazon wins Lake Anna water permit#18 20 Jul
Mentioned in: Anthropic now outspends Nvidia in Washington
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#10 20 Jul
Mentioned in: AI agents turn up in the set-top box
Media's AI Pivot#10 19 Jul
Mentioned in: California judge halts the Paramount merger
Media's AI Pivot#24 17 Jul
Mentioned in: Drones hit Wildberries hubs, eight dead
Russia-Ukraine War 2026#9 15 Jul
Mentioned in: Two EU clocks strike on 22 July
Media's AI Pivot#10 13 Jul
Mentioned in: New York freezes new permits by decree
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#11 10 Jul
Amazon nuisance suit clears first test
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#8 2 Jul
Mentioned in: ElevenLabs eyes $22bn in tender talks
Media's AI Pivot#8 1 Jul
Formalised AWS as TwelveLabs' preferred cloud, tuning models for AWS Trainium chips
Media's AI Pivot: TwelveLabs banks $100m for video AI#8 25 Jun
Lifted total India pledge to $48bn with $13bn incremental for AWS in Mumbai and Hyderabad
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Amazon lifts India bet to $48bn#9 24 Jun
Mentioned in: Virginia forces water draw into daylight
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#8 22 Jun
Mentioned in: Virginia taxes power behind the meter
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#8 22 Jun
Mentioned in: Chevron builds Microsoft a gas plant
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#7 19 Jun
Mentioned in: Netflix carries TF1 channels in France
Media's AI Pivot#7 18 Jun
Supplied the cloud and AI infrastructure stack WBD selected as preferred provider
Media's AI Pivot: WBD rebuilds ad stack on AWS agents#7 18 Jun
Mentioned in: Horizon ships its own buying layer
Media's AI Pivot#7 18 Jun
Mentioned in: WPP convenes six rivals on AI buying
Media's AI Pivot#6 15 Jun
Mentioned in: Fox pays $22bn for Roku's data
Media's AI Pivot#6 12 Jun
Mentioned in: DOJ clears the $110bn Paramount-WBD deal
Media's AI Pivot#7 10 Jun
Mentioned in: Seattle locks in its data-centre freeze
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#6 9 Jun
Faced a contentious public hearing on its application to discharge 280,000 gallons per day into Sedges Creek
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Lake Anna hearing, no PFAS test#13 9 Jun
Mentioned in: OpenAI heads to market losing money
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#6 4 Jun
Mentioned in: Cape Town objection hits Equinix sites
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#6 3 Jun
Mentioned in: CMA orders a Google AI opt-out tool
Media's AI Pivot#7 3 Jun
Mentioned in: Google prices its water ahead of rules
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#7 3 Jun
Mentioned in: CAIDA due before College, scope cut
European Tech Sovereignty#8 2 Jun
Mentioned in: Gartner sees EU sovereign cloud up 83%
European Tech Sovereignty#5 1 Jun
Applied for a VPDES permit to discharge 280,000 gallons per day into Sedges Creek
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Amazon discharge nears Lake Anna vote#12 1 Jun
Mentioned in: Anduril's numbers defer profit to 2030
Drones: Industry & Defence#10 1 Jun
Mentioned in: Bruegel says EU sovereignty mimics rivals
European Tech Sovereignty#6 28 May
Mentioned in: Orbital's $50m raise has no UK lead
UK Startups and Innovation#5 27 May
Mentioned in: Brussels locks 27 May for CAIDA and Chips II
European Tech Sovereignty#6 27 May
Mentioned in: EU sovereignty law slips a third time
European Tech Sovereignty#4 22 May
Mentioned in: EdgeConneX bets €3bn on Italian capacity
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#2 14 May
Mentioned in: Alsup withholds approval on Anthropic $1.5bn
Media's AI Pivot#10 13 May
Mentioned in: Anduril raises $5B at $61B
Drones: Industry & Defence#2 13 May
Mentioned in: WBD ships agentic ads on its last upfront
Media's AI Pivot#10 12 May
Mentioned in: Directors open AI talks with the studios
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#9 11 May
Mentioned in: GitLab rewrites engineering around AI agents
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#3 10 May
Mentioned in: Prince William ends Digital Gateway fight
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#9 8 May
Mentioned in: Upwork kills 25% of staff, declares team model dead
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#92 8 May
Mentioned in: US gasoline hits $4.54 as Hormuz premium sticks
Iran Conflict 2026#2 8 May
Mentioned in: Akamai puts Claude on the EU edge for $1.8bn
Media's AI Pivot#5 7 May
Mentioned in: CAIDA leak: US clouds barred from EU public data
European Tech Sovereignty#2 6 May
Mentioned in: Finland tops 2026 data centre siting ranking
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#3 1 May
Mentioned in: Gallup finds 71% oppose local data centres
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#4 1 May
Mentioned in: Brussels keeps Google DMA replies sealed
European Tech Sovereignty#8 30 Apr
Mentioned in: Apple R&D up 33% after Tim Cook announces exit
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 30 Apr
Mentioned in: DAZN livestreams Serie A free on TikTok
Media's AI Pivot#2 30 Apr
Reported $44.2bn Q1 capex and reaffirmed full-year plan approaching $200bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Hyperscalers raise 2026 capex to $725 billion#8 29 Apr
Mentioned in: Microsoft tells investors 2027 headcount will fall
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#3 29 Apr
Reported $44.2bn Q1 capex and committed roughly $200bn for the full year
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Hyperscalers post record $110.75bn Q1 capex#4 28 Apr
Mentioned in: Commission says DMA is fit, eyes cloud
European Tech Sovereignty#3 28 Apr
Mentioned in: OpenAI cuts compute target by $800bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#4 24 Apr
Mentioned in: CISPE ships rival sovereign cloud badge
European Tech Sovereignty#2 22 Apr
Mentioned in: ENISA scores NIS2 maturity with NCAF 2.0
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#2 17 Apr
Mentioned in: EU awards first sovereign cloud deal
European Tech Sovereignty#2 13 Apr
Mentioned in: OpenAI takes first permanent London base
European Tech Sovereignty#5 8 Apr
Anthropic withholds Mythos from public release
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#6 1 Apr
Declared hard-down status for multiple zones after Iranian missile strikes on Bahrain and Dubai infrastructure
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Iran names Stargate AI centres as targets#1 1 Apr
Mentioned in: Blackstone £10B Blyth, Amazon €33.7B EU
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#8 1 Apr
Reported 95% FCF decline and cut 16,000 corporate staff while projecting $200B 2026 capex
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Amazon FCF down 95% as capex hits $200bn#8 1 Apr
Mentioned in: Alphabet books $35.7bn Q1 capex; backlog hits $460bn
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 1 Apr
Mentioned in: Reach signs AWS pay-per-usage AI licensing deal
Media's AI Pivot#3 31 Mar
Agreed to pay $20.5m to settle a class-action over nitrate pollution from the Boardman, Oregon campus
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Amazon pays $20.5m Boardman nitrate deal#3 26 Mar
Mentioned in: NY AI layoff law: 162 filings, zero hits
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#3 26 Mar
Mentioned in: Azure up 40%, Microsoft posts $77.7bn
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 1 Mar
Mentioned in: Google closes $32bn Wiz deal; 38 M&A
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#1 1 Feb
Mentioned in: European sovereign cloud spend to hit $23bn by 2027
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Feb
“admitted as member undermining sovereignty mandate”
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#1 1 Jan
Mentioned in: Microsoft Mount Pleasant: 8M gallons via lawsuit
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#1 1 Jan
Mentioned in: Spain's first DC lawsuit lands at TSJ Aragón
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#1 1 Dec
Mentioned in: GE Vernova gas backlog hits 80 GW into 2029
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#1 1 Oct
EC opens DMA cloud probes against AWS and Azure
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Oct
“opened cloud gatekeeper probe”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event