This week on Cloud Unplugged Season 3 Episode 3: 
Can Europe build its own cloud for the price of a data centre car park? Is training AI on pirated books the Napster moment for the entire industry? And is 35% of the internet already written by someone who doesn't sleep, eat, or pay taxes?

- EU hands €180M sovereign cloud contract to European companies. AWS, Azure and Google didn't make the cut
- The €180M that has to rival hyperscalers who spend that much on a single data centre (spoiler: it's a statement of intent, not a war chest)
- Bartz v. Anthropic settles for $1.5 billion. The largest copyright settlement in AI history and the rules just got written
- Training on legally bought books: fine. Downloading from LibGen and PiLiMi: very much not fine

Plus: a Stanford study finds 35% of new websites are AI-generated, a wolf escapes a South Korean zoo, someone posts a fake AI image of it in their neighbourhood and the man is now facing jail.

Hosted by Jon and Salman, two industry veterans covering the real stories behind the hype in Cloud, Data and AI.