data center cooling

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...

Microsoft has quietly switched on a new class of AI datacenter — the Fairwater family — and connected it to other sites to create what the company calls its first AI superfactory, an intentionally distributed, high-density compute fabric optimized for training frontier-scale models. Background...

Microsoft Azure suffered a regional disruption on 5 November when a reported datacenter “thermal event” in its West Europe cloud region forced automated cooling and hardware-protection actions that took a subset of storage scale units offline and produced degraded performance across numerous...

Microsoft acknowledged an infrastructure incident affecting its West Europe Azure region after a news report said a “thermal event” in a Netherlands datacenter knocked multiple storage scale units offline and produced degraded performance across Virtual Machines, Azure Database for PostgreSQL...

Microsoft’s lab demonstration of hair‑thin microfluidic channels etched into silicon and an AI‑designed coolant network marks a watershed moment for AI infrastructure — a practical path to remove the industry’s “thermal ceiling,” increase rack compute density, and materially lower cooling energy...

Microsoft's revelation of an in-chip microfluidic cooling prototype marks one of the most ambitious attempts yet to wrestle the thermal limits of modern AI hardware — and it does so by breaking one of datacenter orthodoxy's oldest rules: don't wet the silicon. The company says tiny, hair-width...

Microsoft’s lab teams have demonstrated a bio‑inspired, AI‑optimized in‑chip microfluidic cooling system in partnership with Swiss startup Corintis, claiming up to 3× the heat removal of conventional cold plates and a 65% reduction in peak silicon temperature rise in GPU tests — results that, if...

Microsoft’s latest lab demos show microfluidics — routing liquid through microscopic channels etched into silicon — moving from academic curiosity toward practical tooling for the next generation of AI hardware, a test that promises to reduce cooling overhead, enable higher chip density, and...

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has publicly framed the company’s sprawling new Wisconsin AI campus — branded Fairwater — as a leap in raw frontier compute, saying the site “will deliver 10x the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today” and positioning the build as a cornerstone for...

Water is the most energy‑efficient medium for removing heat from servers, but rising scarcity and regulatory pressure mean data center designers can no longer treat freshwater as an unlimited resource; engineers must now balance the raw thermodynamic advantages of water with aggressive...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the technological landscape, bringing with it a host of benefits—from streamlining work processes to fueling advancements in healthcare, finance, and education. OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft's Copilot have become household names for...

Microsoft's ambitious $3.3 billion investment in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, marks a significant milestone in the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and its integration into the manufacturing sector. This initiative encompasses the construction of a state-of-the-art data...

Wall Street anxiously awaited signs of resilience or reversal from the technology sector, and Microsoft’s third fiscal quarter of 2025 delivered a resoundingly positive message: cloud and AI growth not only remain robust, but are accelerating. Despite economic headwinds and speculation about...