data center design

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have announced a coordinated set of strategic moves that tie massive Azure compute commitments to deep hardware co‑engineering and broaden enterprise access to Anthropic’s Claude family—an arrangement that reshapes the commercial map for large language models...

Microsoft’s new Fairwater installation in Atlanta is not a conventional data center expansion — it’s the next step in a deliberate strategy to stitch multiple purpose-built sites into a single, continent-spanning AI compute fabric that Microsoft calls an AI superfactory, powered by a dedicated...

Microsoft’s decision to expand its Wisconsin AI campus with an additional $4 billion — bringing total investment in the Mount Pleasant/Racine County site to more than $7 billion — is a clear signal that the company intends to cement Azure’s role as an AI infrastructure leader, and the...

The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of...

Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue. Background The Red...

Australian Data Centres has bolstered its executive bench with three senior hires — appointing Matt Holden as Chief Operating Officer, Greg Gale as Chief Information Security Officer, and Peter Adcock as Chief Technology Officer — moves the company says will accelerate its national expansion...

If there’s one thing guaranteed to put a twinkle in a CIO’s eye and a flutter in the heart of any cloud architect, it’s the promise that “we want to make life simpler for customers.” That, ladies and gents, comes straight from the playbook of Clay Magouyrk, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI)...

If you blink, you just might miss the next multimillion-dollar slab poured for yet another data center somewhere between the rolling cornfields of Iowa and the glassy, sky-mirroring towers of Toronto. But with a market eclipsing $76.56 billion in value for 2024 and a projected trajectory...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a cloud-borne data center, turbocharged to keep North America’s digital lifeblood pumping faster than ever. Behind this digital renaissance lies a race, part Silicon Valley sprint, part infrastructure Olympics, to build the vast computer fortresses powering...

In a bold step towards sustainability, Microsoft has unveiled its next-generation datacenter design, which is set to revolutionize the way these powerhouses operate by consuming zero water for cooling. This innovative approach not only reflects Microsoft's commitment to reducing environmental...