Microsoft is following Amazon and a string of other US companies in announcing new investments in European data centres following the scrapping of the Safe Harbour data pact between the EU and US
With the EU’s highest court striking down the 15-year old agreement that allowed companies to store the personal data of Europeans in the US, new investment is poised to flow into data centres here
The European Science Foundation is joining forces with knowledge-based organisations to preserve access to scientific information in computer formats that are fast becoming obsolete.