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2025-06-10

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Amazon wants to create a 'not so sovereign' sovereign cloud in German region deprived of water

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The flag of the German state Brandenburg

Local politicians cheer Amazon announced plans to create a 'sovereign cloud' in Germany, but critics claim it might be not so sovereign at all. After all US laws do still apply to subsidiaries of Amazon. This would mean US intelligence services could still spy on Germany and European customer's data and or even black mail Europeans. Amazon plans building data centers in Brandenburg (Germany), a region suffering from a water shortage. The investment value will be about 8 billion Euros.

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2025-06-02

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"Bundeskartellamt has concerns about Amazon’s use of so-called price control mechanisms"

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The German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) — Germany's national competition regulatory agency — has published preliminary results of its investigation against Amazon. In the focus of the investigation has been the Amazon Marketplace. In its online stores, Amazon itself (“Amazon Retail”) and other sellers (“amazon.de Marketplace”) compete. While this is already confusing for consumers, the antitrust office sees a conflict of interest and an abuse of market power by Amazon. The antirust body complains Amazon ranks sellers with “high prices” invisible, and does not even communicate what is considered a “high price” transparently. Amazon ironically calls its practices the “Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy”.

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