hyperscale data centers

Microsoft’s promotion of Mohit Garg to vice president of engineering for AI network infrastructure is a small personnel story with outsized strategic meaning. It points to a much larger shift inside Microsoft: the company is treating networking, interconnects, and datacenter plumbing as...

Satellite imagery analysts report a coordinated restart of construction across three Microsoft data center campuses in Catawba County, North Carolina, signaling a renewed build program that could add roughly 720–810 MW of IT capacity across the sites and reintroduce significant demand onto the...

Seeing “There has been an error” in the Microsoft Store is one of those Windows annoyances that shows up suddenly, blocks downloads or updates, and makes otherwise simple tasks feel like a technical emergency — but in the vast majority of cases the fix is straightforward and non‑destructive if...

Microsoft’s plan to add 15 data‑center buildings on land once promised to Foxconn has thrust Wisconsin’s electric rates, grid planning and tax policy into the center of a national debate about who pays for the power behind the AI boom — and whether communities that seed that growth will end up...

Florida’s governor has openly broken ranks with President Trump on how to handle artificial intelligence — framing a suite of state-level protections as necessary guardrails against deepfakes, labor disruption and the sprawling infrastructure that powers modern AI, even as the White House issues...

Microsoft’s year‑end position is simple and brutal: the AI build phase has moved from proof‑of‑concept to infrastructure industrialization, and Azure sits at the fulcrum of that transformation — backed by ambitious data‑center projects, accelerated GPU allocations, and a productized AI stack...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 announced a 200‑megawatt expansion of data‑centre capacity in the United Arab Emirates, a move folded into a broader Microsoft commitment of roughly $15.2 billion for UAE AI and cloud infrastructure between 2023 and 2029; the partners say the new capacity will begin...

On a sun‑baked day in Nanaimo, B.C., neighbours and lifelong residents found themselves facing a new kind of local infrastructure fight — not over a factory or a freeway, but over an incoming hyperscale data centre whose thirst could, opponents warn, strain municipal water supplies already...

Microsoft’s newest push at the OCP Global Summit marks a deliberate pivot from proprietary scale to open, standardized frontier-scale AI infrastructure—a campaign built around power stabilization, liquid cooling at rack and facility scale, unified networking for scale-up fabrics, hardened...

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’s renewed public‑sector push in South Africa is more than a sponsorship line on an events page — it’s the visible axis of a multi‑year strategy that mixes heavy infrastructure spending, deep skilling partnerships, and product‑level integrations that together aim to reshape how...

Marvell’s expanded collaboration with Microsoft — now supplying its LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to Microsoft Azure Cloud HSM — is more than a press release: it’s a strategic move that shores up Marvell’s position at the intersection of cloud security, confidential...

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...

AWS’ sudden decision to abandon its proposed 7.2 million-square-foot data center campus in Louisa County, Virginia, marks a notable turning point in the ongoing tug-of-war between hyperscale cloud ambitions and local community interests. The project, pitched as one of the world’s largest digital...

In the relentless transformation of global enterprise technology, Microsoft Azure has carved out a new paradigm—one where artificial intelligence is not merely an add-on but the backbone of the cloud ecosystem. As organizations accelerate digital transformation and seek new engines of...

Glenn Lockwood, a prominent figure in the high-performance computing (HPC) world and a respected voice in the supercomputing community, has recently made headlines by announcing his departure from Microsoft. This move is significant not only because of Lockwood’s stature—gained through his...

The act of asking a question of an AI, whether it’s a request for a quick recipe or an in-depth analysis, feels almost effortless for users—but behind those neatly packaged answers lies a global infrastructure consuming staggering amounts of energy and water. As artificial intelligence...

Oracle’s latest strategic gambit—integrating AMD’s Instinct MI355X GPUs into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)—has sent ripples through the hyper-competitive world of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI). This move is more than a product upgrade; it’s a calculated effort to position...

At a time when major technology companies are reassessing or pulling back their global data centre expansions due to economic, geopolitical, and infrastructural uncertainties, Microsoft is making clear that Malaysia remains a strategic priority in its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI)...

In the rapidly evolving world of high-performance computing, where generative AI and large language model (LLM) workloads push infrastructure far past yesterday’s limits, liquid-cooled servers have moved to center stage as both a symbol and enabler of the new AI-driven era. The launch of ZT...