hyperscalers

CoreWeave’s newly publicized deal with Meta, alongside a headline-making capacity pact between Nebius and Microsoft and continued multi‑billion arrangements with OpenAI, mark a turning point in the AI infrastructure market — one that is accelerating the shift from a handful of hyperscalers to an...

LinkedIn’s CEO has quietly lifted the curtain on a practice many executives already suspected: he leans on artificial intelligence to write the majority of his emails — even the ones sent to his own boss, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Ryan Roslansky disclosed during a fireside chat at LinkedIn’s...

Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI hardware looks formidable on paper — but beneath the headline numbers lies a more complicated story of geopolitical friction, software lock‑in, and accelerating competitor investment that could test Jensen Huang’s ability to keep Team Green entirely unchallenged...

Cloud hosting has evolved from a convenience to a strategic imperative, and the top U.S. providers shaping enterprise IT strategies in 2025 combine scale, specialized services for AI and data, and increasingly sophisticated cost and sustainability commitments. The short list assembled by...

Cloud hosting choices in 2025 matter more than ever: the “big three” hyperscalers still dominate the enterprise landscape, but an increasingly diverse field of specialist and budget providers offers compelling alternatives for startups, agencies, and developers. A short list published recently...

OpenAI and Anthropic now sit on the public stage while Microsoft and Amazon wage a quieter, higher‑stakes contest for the cloud and compute hegemony that will shape the AI decade ahead. Background: how we got here The current alignment — OpenAI with Microsoft and Anthropic with Amazon — is the...

Nvidia’s recent reshaping of its cloud strategy — pivoting DGX Cloud toward a partner-driven marketplace called DGX Cloud Lepton while repurposing portions of its owned fleet for internal R&D — has set off a debate: did that move effectively hand a competitive edge to hyperscalers (Amazon Web...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...

Nvidia’s repositioning of DGX Cloud has reshuffled the AI infrastructure chessboard: what looked like a direct cloud play has been quietly repurposed into a strategic mix of internal R&D capacity and an external orchestration layer (DGX Cloud Lepton) that routes developer demand through partners...

Oracle's blockbuster first-quarter numbers and multibillion-dollar AI deals have rewritten the narrative: a company long pigeonholed as a database vendor is now positioning Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the cloud purpose-built for large-scale AI training and inference — with management...

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has publicly framed the company’s sprawling new Wisconsin AI campus — branded Fairwater — as a leap in raw frontier compute, saying the site “will deliver 10x the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today” and positioning the build as a cornerstone for...

Microsoft’s new Fairwater campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, promises to reframe how hyperscalers build and sell AI compute — a 315‑acre, purpose‑built AI “factory” that stitches hundreds of thousands of the latest NVIDIA chips into a single, tightly coupled supercomputing fabric Microsoft...

Microsoft's announcement that Fairwater — a sprawling AI datacenter complex built on the shelved Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — will become the “world’s most powerful AI datacenter” is a watershed moment for U.S. hyperscale infrastructure, but it also raises immediate technical...

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...

Google Cloud’s blistering quarterly performance left rivals visibly sprinting to keep up, but the bigger story is an industry-wide acceleration driven by AI demand that’s reshaping how hyperscalers compete, sign contracts, and spend on infrastructure. In Q2 and the most recent fiscal quarters...

Nscale’s announcement that it will expand UK AI infrastructure in collaboration with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI marks a significant acceleration in the country’s bid for sovereign, large-scale AI compute — a move that blends private hyperscale investment with geopolitics, national industrial...

Oracle’s sudden emergence as a credible AI cloud contender has shifted the conversation: a company long defined by databases is now pitching a bold, capital‑intensive roadmap that — if every assumption holds — could place Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) among the industry’s leaders for AI...

KPMG’s ascent into Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026 confirms what clients and partners have already suspected: the Big Four firm has cemented its role as one of the most influential system integrators shaping how enterprise AI is delivered on the Microsoft stack. This...

Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just reshape expectations for a legacy database vendor — it rewrote the competitive map for cloud infrastructure by booking a staggering backlog and laying out a five‑year growth path that, if executed, would position Oracle as a genuine challenger to the...

Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a legacy enterprise software company can become in an AI-first world. Background For two decades Oracle was best known as a database and enterprise-software stalwart slowly adapting to a cloud-first world...