hyperscalers

With cloud computing cementing its status as the backbone of digital transformation, the competition between hyperscalers remains fierce, with each innovation or quarterly report closely scrutinized by investors, technologists, and IT strategists. In a surprising turn, Microsoft Azure recently...

Throughout the tech industry, fluctuations in cloud giant investment have long served as a bellwether for sentiment on the future of artificial intelligence and related technologies. Recent financial disclosures from Microsoft, one of the world’s most prominent cloud and AI players, have...

Forty-two years ago, the introduction of Microsoft Word marked an early assertion of Microsoft’s commitment to Europe, both as a pioneer in localized software and as a forerunner in digital productivity. Now, amid sweeping geopolitical uncertainties and the rapid evolution of technology...

The recent investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into cloud market competitiveness has brought to light a critical challenge enterprises face when moving from traditional on-premises environments to cloud infrastructure: the complexity and expense of migrating...

In the intense, ever-evolving landscape of AI infrastructure, every billion-dollar deal tells a story—a tale of ambition, shifting power, cutthroat economics, and a technological arms race measured in GPUs, teraflops, and freakish leaps in AI capability. The recent $11.9 billion, five-year pact...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Robust Capital Spending Fuels Data Center Expansion Investors have long looked for key trends to gauge the future trajectory of sales and profitability in tech giants. One pivotal indicator is the planned capital expenditures by hyperscaler cloud service providers. As giants such as Amazon Web...