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Microsoft said on May 6, 2026, that it is expanding Azure capacity across Europe, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece and Finland, while tying the buildout to cloud growth, AI demand, data residency, sovereign-cloud controls and multi-region resilience for European customers. The...

The AI compute crunch is no longer a theoretical bottleneck; it is the organizing constraint shaping how the biggest names in tech build, buy, and compete. Meta’s recent infrastructure moves, Microsoft’s expanding Azure deals, and the broader scramble for GPUs and high-bandwidth memory show that...

Microsoft’s push to build its own frontier AI models by 2027 is more than a product roadmap update. It is a signal that the company wants to reduce its dependence on OpenAI, reclaim strategic control over its AI stack, and compete more directly in the market for state-of-the-art multimodal...

Microsoft’s Tokyo offices were inspected by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission this week, and the probe—combined with renewed investor scrutiny of AI infrastructure spending and accounting—has put a fresh spotlight on how Azure, in-house silicon, and aggressive capital deployment are reshaping...

The hyperscalers are no longer hedging their bets: they are front‑loading an industrial‑scale build‑out of data centers, power infrastructure, and GPU fleets that will define where AI runs, who pays for it, and how enterprises consume it for the next decade. Amazon’s recent pledge to invest...

Google’s latest earnings snapshot has a simple, headline‑friendly takeaway: the AI race that began in earnest with ChatGPT’s breakout in early 2023 has become a three‑horse sprint, and Alphabet is no longer the trailing contender — it is visibly closing the gap with OpenAI. In Alphabet’s Q4 2025...