hyperscalers

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’s a sunny Tuesday afternoon in Europe’s digital corridors, and the cloudscape is crackling with uncertainty and intrigue. The Great European Cloud Quandary Europe’s relationship with US hyperscalers – those cloud behemoths known affectionately (and sometimes acidly) as AWS, Microsoft Azure...

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...

In a power move set to further entwine two tech titans, Nokia has announced a five-year expansion to its existing agreement with Microsoft. This partnership will see Nokia supplying advanced data centre routers and switches for none other than Microsoft's Azure cloud platform—one of the world's...