data centers

When a sector’s wiring runs across continents and under oceans, a single act of geopolitics can ripple from the diplomatic backrooms to the redundant power feeds under your office floor — and the data center industry is precisely that kind of transcontinental project, fragile at the seams and...

Microsoft’s latest public push to expand AI-ready datacenters comes with an explicit promise: the company says it will “pay its own way” so local household electricity bills do not rise as a result of its buildouts, and it pairs that pledge with targets on water, jobs, taxes and community...

Microsoft’s new “Community‑First AI Infrastructure” pledge lands as a strategic pivot in the company’s datacenter strategy, a public-facing bid to reframe hyperscale AI buildouts as accountable, locally beneficial investments rather than hidden local burdens. Background Microsoft launched the...

The Illinois attorney general has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to pause and scrutinize proposed Transmission Service Agreements (TSAs) between Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) and multiple data center developers, arguing the contracts fail to insulate existing ratepayers from...

Microsoft’s newest public commitment — a pledge to ensure its AI datacenters do not drive up local electricity bills — marks a turning point in how hyperscale cloud providers are answering political, regulatory, and community pressure over the environmental and economic footprint of AI...

Microsoft’s latest AI diffusion snapshot reframes a familiar narrative: Africa is not a single market but a collection of fast-moving, unevenly resourced digital economies—and a small number of countries are already pulling ahead on AI adoption, skills and governance while the rest face...

The calendar year 2025 will be read in hindsight as the year artificial intelligence stopped being an experiment and became an industrial force — reshaping markets, national policy, energy systems, corporate headcounts, and intimate human relationships in ways few expected and many are still...

Silicon Valley’s biggest startups closed 2025 with an unprecedented haul of private capital — roughly $150 billion — as investors poured record sums into AI-first companies and a handful of megadeals dominated the year’s totals. That flood of money reshaped late‑stage venture math, empowered...

The year 2025 was the moment artificial intelligence stopped being a mostly academic curiosity and became an industrial force that reshaped national policy, energy grids, markets and everyday work — and the reverberations will define the debates and decisions of 2026 and beyond. Background By...

Brookfield Asset Management’s reported move to launch a cloud business aimed at lower-cost AI infrastructure marks a notable acceleration in the race to build the physical backbone of AI — and it signals that capital-rich infrastructure players are now prepared to compete directly with...

Politico’s coverage of a brewing cross‑party crisis — that Americans broadly dislike the current surge of commercial artificial intelligence even as the political class dithers — landed like a thrown glove at the feet of the Democratic Party, and the fallout matters because it exposes a...

2025 closed as a year in which information technology stopped being an incremental operating expense and instead became a strategic, capital‑intensive layer that reshaped energy‑industry planning, hiring, procurement and risk management. The short, widely circulated Top‑10 list by Yogi Schulz...

Kuwait and its Gulf neighbours are positioning themselves to become one of the world’s next major nodes for AI infrastructure and sovereign cloud services, driven by deliberate public‑private programs, abundant energy capacity, and large sovereign investors willing to underwrite the heavy...

Mustafa Suleyman’s offhand characterizations of his peers — calling Sam Altman “courageous,” Demis Hassabis “a great scientist,” and Elon Musk a “bulldozer” with “superhuman capabilities to bend reality to his will” — landed as a deliberately blunt strategic signal from the executive now running...

Microsoft’s 2025 push to turn Azure into a purpose-built utility for the AI economy is no longer a marketing slogan — it’s a global infrastructure strategy that is reshaping how companies buy compute, how governments think about energy and sovereignty, and how investors value cloud platforms in...

Microsoft’s Lagos briefing made one thing clear: the company is not planning to build a Microsoft Nigeria data centre “anytime soon,” and will instead prioritise cloud connectivity, partner-led delivery and private links such as Azure ExpressRoute to serve Nigerian organisations while the...

Satya Nadella has quietly shifted from chief executive to de facto product steward for Microsoft’s AI stack, ramping up direct oversight of Copilot and related AI initiatives as internal and external signals show the company’s flagship assistant is struggling to translate early hype into broad...

Japan’s Fujikura is being swept up in the AI infrastructure boom — and the company’s public statements and corporate actions make clear it’s racing to expand capacity even as customers and governments line up for fibre optic supplies that underpin the global data‑centre buildout. Background...

Microsoft has flipped the switch: Windows Server 2025 now includes a native NVMe storage stack that removes decades of SCSI translation and exposes NVMe’s multi‑queue, low‑latency semantics to the kernel — a platform modernization that Microsoft says delivers large IOPS uplifts and significant...

Latin America has entered a new, fast-moving phase of digital infrastructure expansion: the rollout of 5G, surging cloud adoption and the explosive demand for AI compute are together turning the region into a crowded construction site for data centers and cloud regions. Major hyperscalers and...