Welcome to The Tech Capital’s 60 Seconds daily news brief with your host, João Marques Lima. It’s Wednesday, June 16, 2021, and these are your top headlines for today:

-Microsoft has bought online the first of three data centres in the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona;

-French multinational Atos said it will invest $260 million in the building of a data centre in Kenya;

-Over in Australia, Canberra is planning to make it law that government data needs to be stored within the nation’s borders.

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