cryogenic cooling

Microsoft’s Azure engineering teams are placing a high‑stakes bet that a deceptively old physics trick — feeding electricity through materials cooled to cryogenic temperatures so they carry current with effectively zero resistance — can be the short‑cut hyperscalers need to deliver far more...

Microsoft’s recent public foray into high‑temperature superconductors (HTS) for datacenter power delivery represents more than a laboratory novelty — it is a deliberate engineering bet that the next generation of cloud-scale compute will require fundamentally different approaches to electricity...