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Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 4, April 2025

Welcome to our fourth issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy this issue and thank you for reading. Sector by Sector: How Data Breaches are Wrecking Bottom Lines - “Data...more

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real...

Data Centers: A Field Guide

By one count, worldwide there were some 11,800 data centers in early 2024. Within that census are facilities so small that they fit in office building closets, while others are among the largest manmade structures on the...more

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UK data centres designated as ‘critical national infrastructure’: Supporting the conditions for investor confidence

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In what has been seen as an acknowledgement of the fundamental importance of data centres to the functioning of the UK economy and society, the UK Government has acted to designate data centres as ‘critical national...more

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AI Action Summit 2025: Can the French AI Sector Still Thrive While Being Limited by EU Regulations?

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On 9 February 2025, prior to the commencement of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, President Emmanuel Macron in an interview on French national TV announced a substantial €109 billion investment in AI...more

Conn Kavanaugh

Three Things You Should Know About Service Level Agreements in SaaS/Cloud Contracts

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When a customer purchases software-as-a-service (SaaS)–which is sometimes called a “cloud” service or product–the software is not hosted. It does not reside at the customer’s location or data center. Rather the software is...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

The Future of Artificial Intelligence in the United Kingdom AI Opportunities Action Plan

On January 13, 2025, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the UK AI Opportunities Action Plan. The AI Opportunities Action Plan outlines the UK’s intentions to become a world leader in artificial...more

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President Biden's Executive Order: Washington Charts New Course for Data Center Expansion

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President Biden's recent executive order marks a pivotal shift in federal policy for digital infrastructure. The directive tasks federal agencies with identifying locations for new private-sector data centers, underscoring...more

Morgan Lewis

Trump’s $20B Data Center Investment Announcement Underscores the Race for Data Center Capacity

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Ahead of his inauguration at the end of January, President-elect Donald Trump announced that Damac Properties, controlled by Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, will make at least a $20 billion investment to build data...more

Mayer Brown

New EU Cyber Rules (NIS2) Take Effect; Implementing Rules Adopted

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On 17 October 2024, the European Commission adopted the first Implementing Regulation under the Network and Information Security 2 Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS2), focusing on digital infrastructures and services. The...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Landslide Election Victory for UK Labour Party Marks Seismic Shift in UK’s Political Terrain

The Labour Party outlines areas of potential focus for the next UK Parliament. The UK Labour Party won a sizeable parliament majority in the UK general election on July 4, 2024, as it took 411 of the 650 seats in the UK...more

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Data Centers: Demand, Development, and Future Challenges With Ali Greenwood — TAG Infrastructure Talks Podcast

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Ali Greenwood, executive director in Cushman & Wakefield's Global Data Center Advisory Group, joins host Alan Poole to discuss historical, current, and future drivers of the demand and velocity of data center construction...more

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The Data Center Cooling Conundrum With Leland Sparks - TAG Infrastructure Talks Podcast

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Host and Troutman Pepper Partner Alan Poole joins in a conversation with Leland Sparks, data center expert and principle at LNS Solutions. In this discussion, Leland describes how gargantuan increases in computing power...more

J.S. Held

What’s Cooking? Thermal and Overtemperature Events of Datacenters

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You may have read storage and operational temperature specifications on a box of newly purchased electronics or somewhere buried in the back of a user manual. Computers, servers, networking equipment, and other electronics...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

5 Things You Need to Know About NIS 2

On 10 November 2022, the European Parliament approved the Network and Information Security 2 Directive ("NIS 2"), moving a step closer to expanding the scope of the Network and Information Security ("NIS") Directive, the EU's...more

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ATL1, Atlanta Infrastructure and More With Brandon Peccoralo of Databank - TAG Infrastructure Talks Podcast

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In this episode of the TAG Infrastructure Talks, Troutman Pepper Partner Alan Poole sits down with Brandon Peccoralo, vice president of sales and account management at DataBank, to discuss his background and the significant...more

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Good Practices for Managing Data Center Energy Efficiency

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Due to their specialized function—housing energy intensive IT equipment and 24/7/365 operations—data center facilities often consume over 100 (10 to 50 per floor space) times the quantity of electricity of a similarly sized...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Computing on the Edge

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Thomas Friedman's 2005 book titled The World is Flat discussed how globalization and technology flatten barriers to entry, making the world more competitive. From 2005 to 2021, there is no shortage of examples to highlight...more

Hogan Lovells

Data centre operators in Europe could benefit from Brexit and have already been preparing for years for precisely this scenario,...

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The United Kingdom (UK) finally left the EU on 31 January 2020. The withdrawal agreement provides for the UK to continue to be treated largely as an EU member state until the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020,...more

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The Russian Data Protection Authority, Roskomnadzor, Enforces New Russian Data Localization Law

On September 9, 2015, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (the “Roskomnadzor”) reported on its website that it blocked an extensive online database of more...more

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Russian Government Considering Delaying Data Localization Law

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A controversial data localization law in Russia that would require businesses to perform data storage and processing with servers located on Russian soil is set to go into effect on September 1, 2015, after an amendment...more

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Data Center Contracts: Privacy and Security Terms

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A sometimes overlooked but potentially significant liability exposure for any company that uses the “cloud” to remotely store, process or distribute data is the service provider contract between the company user and its data...more

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