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Artificial intelligence is not an overnight revolution for Australian workplaces — it is proving, by the evidence, to be a slow horse that businesses are saddling carefully and unevenly, with most firms expecting the peak effect on staffing to arrive years from now rather than tomorrow...

Foxconn is in talks with OpenAI to co-develop next‑generation AI data centers — a development that could reshape Taiwan’s infrastructure role in the global AI compute race while navigating the legal and commercial constraints of OpenAI’s deep ties with Microsoft. Background / Overview Foxconn...

Microsoft’s announcement that Atlanta has become the second Fairwater-class Azure AI datacenter — and that it is joined to the Wisconsin site to form what the company calls a planet-scale “AI superfactory” — is a clear statement of intent: hyperscale cloud providers are now building...

Microsoft has flipped the switch on what it calls an “AI superfactory” — a purpose‑built, rack‑scale Azure installation powered by NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell Ultra GB300 family that stitches thousands of GB300 NVL72 racks into a single production fabric and sets a public target to scale to...

Microsoft has quietly moved from single-site, ultra-dense GPU farms to a deliberately networked approach — connecting purpose-built datacenters into what it calls an AI superfactory capable of training and deploying frontier models across states, with Atlanta now operating as the second...

OpenAI’s leadership has quietly signalled a strategic inflection: the company is seriously exploring selling compute as a product — an “AI cloud” that could sit alongside or compete with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Background OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman posted on X that...

OpenAI’s leadership has quietly shifted the company’s public roadmap from “AI-first products” to a far broader industrial play: build enormous, vertically integrated compute capacity and, potentially, sell that capacity back to the market as a new kind of AI cloud. The implications are profound...

Undersea fiber isn’t a niche concern for network engineers anymore — it’s the physical spine of the global cloud economy, and this week’s reveal of Amazon Web Services’ new transatlantic cable, Fastnet, underscored how Big Tech is quietly building an ocean-spanning private network to control...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 have committed to a 200-megawatt expansion of data‑center capacity in the United Arab Emirates — to be built and operated through G42’s Khazna Data Centers subsidiary — a move the partners say will come online in phases beginning before the end of 2026 and that sits...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 today announced a coordinated expansion that will add 200 megawatts (MW) of new data‑centre capacity in the United Arab Emirates through Khazna Data Centers, a G42 subsidiary — a project the partners say will be online before the end of 2026 and is explicitly framed...

Microsoft confirmed plans for a second in‑country Azure cloud region in Malaysia — branded Southeast Asia 3 and set for Johor Bahru — a move the company says will expand capacity for AI workloads, tie into Azure’s global backbone, and extend a US$2.2 billion Malaysia investment that began in...

India’s data‑centre landscape has shifted from nascent to monumental over the past two years: global hyperscalers and domestic champions are committing tens of billions of dollars to build AI‑ready, gigawatt‑scale campuses, and that capital is already reshaping power, fibre and skills planning...

AI is no longer an optional layer on top of enterprise systems — it is actively remaking the architecture, behavior, and business case for modern ERP, turning what used to be a passive transaction ledger into a continuous, predictive decision engine that can automate work, reduce cost, and...

Microsoft, OpenAI and the hyperscale investors that bankroll them turned a single week of headlines into a clear picture of where the AI industry is headed: assistants that behave like companions, commerce that happens inside chat windows, and a rush to build the physical infrastructure those...

Alphabet’s spending plans have just rewritten the map of the AI datacenter race: Google’s parent Alphabet said it will push capital expenditures to roughly $91–$93 billion in 2025, with management warning of a significant increase again in 2026 as cloud and AI demand outstrips capacity...

Microsoft is doubling down on the physical work of AI—ramping GPU capacity, signing multi‑billion dollar infrastructure deals, and building “AI‑first” datacenters—because analysts now expect that Azure’s revenue growth will re‑accelerate as those investments come online. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s latest push turns Edge into an AI-first browsing surface: Copilot Mode brings conversational voice controls, multi‑tab “agentic” actions, resumable Journeys, and explicit opt‑in privacy controls — all designed to let an assistant do the web for you rather than just summarize it...

Andhra Pradesh’s government has moved from ambitious pitch to structured execution by constituting a dedicated Data Centre Advisory Council tasked with delivering a roadmap to 6,000 MW of data‑centre capacity by 2030, positioning Visakhapatnam as the state’s flagship AI‑era infrastructure hub...

Microsoft Edge’s newest update folds a thinking, acting assistant into the browser window: Copilot Mode turns tabs and history into usable context, introduces agentic automations that can perform multi‑step web tasks, and adds a memory layer called Journeys — all delivered with visible consent...

Artificial intelligence’s surge from lab curiosity to everyday utility has created a parallel surge in physical infrastructure: enormous, power‑dense data centres that swallow electricity, water and silicon to deliver the responses users now take for granted. The Oman Observer piece on “The...