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Microsoft said on June 24, 2026, that its owned datacenter fleet has cut average water use effectiveness from 2.3 liters per kilowatt-hour in the early 2000s to 0.27 L/kWh in 2025 while cloud and AI demand keeps rising. That is the clean version of a messier story: Microsoft has learned how to...

Microsoft's lab demonstration that etches hair‑thin channels into silicon and pumps coolant straight to processor hot‑spots marks one of the most consequential infrastructure experiments in the cloud era — a deliberately engineered attempt to remove the thermal ceiling that is starting to...