data centers

India's ascent as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) was prominently showcased at the Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) Pinnacle Summit 2025 in Hyderabad. This annual event, now in its third year, convened Microsoft leaders, IDC teams, key customers, and AI innovators to...

The cloud computing industry is experiencing a significant transformation, driven by the escalating demand for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Major players such as Oracle, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure are making substantial investments in data center...

Data Storage Corporation (DTST), a prominent player in the multi-cloud hosting and managed cloud services sector, has announced its participation in the upcoming 2025 iAccess Alpha Virtual Best Ideas Spring Investment Conference. This event, set for March 25-26, 2025, offers an important venue...

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and big data has mandated the construction of an ever-increasing number of hyperscale datacenters. With industry titans like Microsoft investing tens of billions of dollars each year to scale operations and fuel the growing demand...

Belgium’s position at the heart of Europe is evolving rapidly with the announcement that Microsoft’s three new data centres in the country will officially be operational from the autumn. Representing not just a technological milestone but a strategic economic and political shift, these...

Microsoft stands at the forefront of a rapidly shifting technology landscape, with artificial intelligence reshaping business priorities from top to bottom. As the company’s data center expansion enters a new strategic phase, Microsoft’s approach to capital expenditure, AI services, and its...

In a landmark move underscoring both commitment and confidence in Africa’s digital future, Microsoft has pledged a fresh investment of R5.4 billion in South Africa, aimed at supercharging the nation’s artificial intelligence capabilities and expanding the backbone of cloud infrastructure. This...

The first public demonstration of Micron’s PCIe 6.0 solid-state drive has sent tremors through the high-speed storage landscape, unveiling breakthroughs that suggest a seismic shift is imminent for enterprise data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and next-generation computing...

In a rapidly evolving cloud computing landscape, even the most high-profile partnerships can face turbulence. Microsoft's reported decision to scale back portions of its agreements with CoreWeave—an ambitious AI-powered cloud provider with heavyweight backing from Nvidia—signals more than a...

Nvidia powers the digital dreams of the AI revolution, not by gently nudging the market forward but by steamrolling it with all the subtlety of a hyperscale data center falling from the sky. If you’ve wondered who’s forging the picks and shovels for today’s gold miners in Silicon Valley, look no...

A pause at a cloud giant’s colocation negotiation table can send hyperscaler groupies spinning into speculation mode, but as Amazon steps into a datacenter lease reassessment – barely a flutter in its own conference rooms – the outside world presses its collective face against the glass and...

Somewhere in a windowless boardroom, a group of people wearing expensive sneakers and worried expressions just pressed the pause button on AWS’s latest global data center leasing spree—and, if the analyst tea leaves are right, it’s not because they couldn’t find the light switch. Instead, AWS’s...

It starts with a simple “thank you.” Maybe a cheerful “you’re welcome.” Perhaps you feel compelled to add a few extra sentences of good-natured banter after ChatGPT helps you with your midterm essay, or guides your beleaguered boss through the choppy waters of Excel formulas. Politeness, that...

The whirr of cooling fans has replaced the hum of office chatter in Europe’s digital nerve centers. In the age of artificial intelligence, the power struggles of nations are no longer confined to tariffs or embassies — they now play out in racks of servers, between fiber-optic cables, and deep...

It began not with an explosion of fanfare, but with the click of a digital pen—Colt Technology Services, the international connectivity juggernaut, quietly shook up Europe’s data landscape with a move that will reverberate through server rooms and boardrooms alike. In a deal that’s equal parts...

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...

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...

Goodbye GPU Rations, Hello Infinite Buffet: How OpenAI Escaped the Compute Penalty Box Generative AI has always been a bit like a Formula 1 car with a lawn‑mower fuel tank—capable of blistering speed, but forever pulling into the pits for more gas (a.k.a. GPUs). For years, Sam Altman’s OpenAI...

1. Postcards from the Future: Amazon Executives Land in Larnaca At 07:18 on a sun‑splashed Tuesday, a handful of Amazon vice‑presidents slipped past the duty‑free feta displays at Larnaca International. No corporate banners, no marching band—just discreet AWS logos on aluminium water bottles and...

Microsoft and OpenAI’s once‑rock‑solid alliance is showing signs of strain. In early April 2025, Microsoft quietly pulled out of two major data‑center deals—each capable of supplying hundreds of megawatts of power—that had been earmarked to support additional ChatGPT training workloads. This...