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Microsoft began cutting several thousand jobs in May 2025, with the company saying the reductions would affect less than 3 percent of its global workforce across regions, levels, and business units, including LinkedIn. The math matters: with Microsoft reporting 228,000 employees at the end of...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Build 2026 attendees in early June that Microsoft’s newest AI data centers can use, over a year, roughly the same amount of water as a single restaurant, because their cooling systems rely on a closed liquid loop filled once. The claim is technically plausible...

Microsoft filed a proposed Ratepayer Protection Tariff with Nevada utility regulators in May 2026, asking the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to create a framework that makes large AI data center customers pay for grid infrastructure built primarily to serve them. The filing is not just...

Microsoft’s AI-era data center expansion is colliding with local resistance across the United States in May 2026, as a new Gallup survey finds roughly seven in ten Americans oppose building AI data centers near where they live. The fight is no longer a niche zoning dispute or a handful of...

On May 13, 2026, Gallup reported that 71 percent of U.S. adults oppose construction of AI data centers in their local area, a finding that turns the physical infrastructure of artificial intelligence into a national backyard fight. The result is not a small reputational problem for the AI...

Microsoft and G42’s planned $1 billion geothermal-powered AI data center in Kenya has stalled in May 2026 after the Kenyan government declined to guarantee the electricity capacity and payments needed to support the project at full scale. The blockage is not a local procurement hiccup; it is a...

Kenya has suspended the planned $1 billion Microsoft-G42 geothermal data center near Olkaria after President William Ruto said the facility’s electricity demand could consume nearly a third of the country’s roughly 3,000-megawatt power capacity. The project was announced in May 2024 during...

Microsoft told investors on April 29, 2026, that it added roughly one gigawatt of datacenter capacity during its fiscal third quarter, lifted quarterly revenue to $82.9 billion, and remains on track to double its overall AI infrastructure footprint within two years. That is the plain-English...

Microsoft’s AI infrastructure strategy is shifting fast from restraint to urgency, and that reversal is now becoming visible in the company’s balance sheet, site selection, and power strategy. After reportedly slowing down data center construction in late 2024 and early 2025, Microsoft now...

Microsoft’s reported move to lease abandoned AI data center capacity in Abilene, Texas is more than a simple real-estate transaction. It signals how quickly the generative AI infrastructure race is shifting from grand announcements to hard-nosed capacity arbitrage, with major cloud vendors...

Microsoft’s internal planning documents — and multiple news outlets that reviewed them — mark a blunt inflection point: the AI boom is forcing hyperscale cloud operators to reckon with water the same way they once had to reckon with power. What was framed in 2020 as a realistic corporate crusade...

The nickname "Microslop" has gone from internet snark to a visible user protest, encapsulating a widening backlash against Microsoft’s aggressive integration of Copilot across Windows and recent internal cost‑cutting that removed longstanding employee information resources — a revolt that...