data center

Microsoft’s surprise agreement with Nebius to supply large blocks of AI compute to Azure marks a strategic pivot: rather than racing to open more hyperscale data centers itself, Microsoft is contracting external “neocloud” capacity to close short-term gaps in U.S. availability while it...

A sudden cluster of undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea has forced Microsoft Azure and other cloud and carrier operators to reroute traffic, producing measurable latency and slower internet performance across parts of South Asia, the Gulf and beyond—an event that exposes how a handful of damaged...

Multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut in early September, producing widespread internet slowdowns across South Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe and prompting Microsoft to warn Azure customers that traffic routed through the affected corridor may experience...

Microsoft’s Azure platform warned of higher-than-normal network latency for traffic traversing the Middle East after multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea forced rerouting of international traffic beginning at 05:45 UTC on 6 September 2025. (backup.azure.status.microsoft, reuters.com)...

Microsoft Azure warned customers of higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators rerouted traffic and prepared for complex maritime repairs. (reuters.com) Background /...

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. (reuters.com)...

Dell’s latest quarter reads like a two-act play: a booming data‑center business buoyed by AI-optimized servers that pushed record revenue, and a more muted PC market that — despite an imminent Windows 10 end‑of‑life — is unfolding as a multi‑quarter refresh rather than a single sprint...

Analyst chatter turned into headlines on September 4, 2025, when a short AInvest dispatch reported upgrades to Microsoft (MSFT) and Marvell Technology (MRVL) and a downgrade for NIO (NIO), framing the moves as part of a broader rotation into AI, cloud computing, and data‑center exposure — a...

OpenAI’s highly anticipated corporate restructuring has been pushed off the immediate calendar as last‑ditch negotiations with Microsoft over API access, intellectual property (IP) rights and a disputed “AGI clause” remain unresolved, forcing a delay that could push the overhaul into next year...

Elon Musk has a new shot across Microsoft’s bow, and this time it has a name tailor‑made for memes and search engines alike: Macrohard—a “purely AI software company,” as he described it in a post on X, pitched to simulate the work of a software giant entirely with autonomous AI agents. He framed...

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service is officially being discussed as a candidate for a lower‑cost, more widely available tier — possibly ad‑supported — even as Microsoft simultaneously pushes forward on next‑generation hardware, AI features, and a deeper partnership with AMD that will shape...

Microsoft’s latest quarterly report confirms what investors and enterprise customers have been sensing for months: cloud and AI are not just growth drivers — they are the engine reshaping Microsoft’s business and the broader enterprise landscape. In the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025...

The AI infrastructure era is consolidating around three firms that sit at the intersection of design, fabrication, and deployment: Nvidia for compute architectures and software stacks, TSMC for the advanced manufacturing that turns designs into reality, and Microsoft for the cloud fabric and...

AMD’s “Rome” EPYC announcement and the related Computex chatter about deeper Azure collaboration mixed accurate engineering milestones with translation-smoothed promotional claims, but the core story is straightforward: AMD’s 2nd‑generation EPYC (Rome) legitimately reshaped server economics and...

Global cloud capital expenditures are entering a new, accelerated phase: analysts now expect hyperscale providers to push annual data-center CapEx from hundreds of billions into the low‑trillions over the next half decade, led by Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft — a concentrated spending...

The market’s obsession with a tight cluster of AI-exposed mega-cap stocks has shifted from curiosity to conviction, and in the latest earnings cycle that conviction was tested — sometimes rewarded, sometimes exposed — as Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Tesla produced results that crystallize both...

NVIDIA’s vGPU 19.0 release signals a pivotal moment for enterprise virtualization, as it brings unprecedented power and flexibility to modern data centers leveraging the formidable NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Series GPUs. By marrying innovations like Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partitioning with...

Nvidia’s reign as the world’s leading AI chipmaker remains a story of innovation, ecosystem dominance, and stratospheric investor expectations—yet it is now unfolding on a far more competitive and uncertain stage than ever before. Fresh Q2 2025 figures show historic demand for Nvidia’s GPUs and...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of data center infrastructure, the decision to deploy AMD processors over Arm-based alternatives has become a focal point for many organizations. This choice is influenced by several critical factors, including feature parity with cloud offerings, software...

Microsoft’s latest quarterly financial report confirms the scale and speed of the cloud revolution now reshaping the enterprise technology world. With Azure at the heart of its strategy, Microsoft has posted record-shattering results and executed one of the largest data centre expansions in...