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Cloud computing

October 2026

  • A brown paper Amazon mailer bag rests atop a rounded bin lid

    Amazon gives Wall Street mixed financial picture in earnings report

  • FILE PHOTO: Illustration shows Meta's logo and a keyboardFILE PHOTO: Meta's logo and a keyboard are shown in this illustration created on October 19, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

    Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion

September 2026

  • A hand holds a crowbar in front of four safes in the colours of the Microsoft logo, red, green, yellow and blue

    Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors

    Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers

July 2026

  • A red train passes on an elevated track with Canary Wharf office towers in the background

    Bank of England handed powers to regulate key tech firms including Amazon and Google

    Direct oversight of ‘critical third parties’ such as Oracle and Microsoft given to ensure resilient cyber-defences and help safeguard UK economy

June 2026

  • The Microsoft logo and name are displayed on a wood-paneled wall with black metal frames

    Microsoft to tighten human rights measures after inquiry into Israel’s use of its tech

  • Henna Virkkunen gives speech in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter

    EU aims to ensure foreign governments or firms cannot disrupt tech services with ‘kill switch’

May 2026

  • A river in bushland

    Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition

    Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AI

April 2026

  • Workers in dirty hi-vis jackets in a data centre

    US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

  • A rocket blasts off in the dark with flames shooting out.

    Amazon to finally launch Leo satellite internet in ‘mid-2026’, says CEO

February 2026

  • A technician at an Amazon Web Services AI datacentre in New Carlisle, Indiana.

    Amazon’s cloud ‘hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year’

    Reported issues at Amazon Web Services raise questions about firm’s use of artificial intelligence as it cuts staff

December 2025

  • a collage of technological imagery over the rubble of a city

    ‘Data is control’: what we learned from a year investigating the Israeli military’s ties to big tech

  • OpenAI's ChatGPT app

    Amazon in talks to invest $10bn in developer of ChatGPT

  • the glass and steel rotunda towers of Oracle's HQ reflected in the lake

    Disappointing Oracle results knock $80bn off value amid AI bubble fears

  • IDF tank

    Irish authorities asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by IDF

November 2025

  • An illustration shows the OpenAI log on a smartphone in front of an AWS logo

    OpenAI signs $38bn cloud computing deal with Amazon

    Agreement to use AWS datacentres, and Nvidia chips inside them, part of $1.4tn spending spree on AI infrastructure

October 2025

  • aerial view of a datacenter

    Amazon reports strongest cloud growth since 2022 after major outage

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) sees 20% increase in revenue year over year, topping Wall Street estimates
  • The Google building in Mountain View, California.

    Google parent Alphabet beats forecasts with first $100bn quarter

    Strong demand for ads and cloud services powered tech giant’s growth as it makes multibillion-dollar AI investment

    • Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline

    • The Guardian view on the cloud crash: an outage that showed who really runs the internet

    • ‘Significant exposure’: Amazon Web Services outage exposed UK state’s £1.7bn reliance on tech giant

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