Microsoft’s decision to expand its Wisconsin AI campus with an additional $4 billion — bringing total investment in the Mount Pleasant/Racine County site to more than $7 billion — is a clear signal that the company intends to cement Azure’s role as an AI infrastructure leader, and the...
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London’s AI infrastructure landscape has just been upended: Nscale, the UK-based AI infrastructure company, announced plans to build a multi‑megawatt AI campus in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI that partners say will house one of the country’s most powerful AI supercomputers and...
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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...
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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...
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Microsoft’s announcement that it is building what it calls the world’s most powerful AI datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — a megasite branded Fairwater — marks a decisive escalation in the physical infrastructure race underpinning the generative AI era. The facility, part of a newly...
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Nscale’s plan to build what partners are billing as the UK’s largest AI supercomputer — in collaboration with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI — represents a major acceleration of on‑shore AI compute capacity, promising tens of thousands of next‑generation GPUs, multi‑megawatt power envelopes and a...
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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...
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Water is the most energy‑efficient medium for removing heat from servers, but rising scarcity and regulatory pressure mean data center designers can no longer treat freshwater as an unlimited resource; engineers must now balance the raw thermodynamic advantages of water with aggressive...
London-based Nscale’s announcement that it will partner with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI to deliver a UK-focused wave of AI compute — anchored by an Nscale AI Campus in Loughton and a new “Stargate UK” sovereign compute platform — marks one of the most consequential infrastructure packages for...
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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...
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OpenAI and Nvidia are preparing a major push into physical infrastructure in two of the world’s most important AI markets — the United Kingdom and India — in moves that crystallize a new phase of the AI arms race where chips, power and real estate matter as much as algorithms. Early reports say...
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The 2025 desktop gaming market has matured into a clear split: compact, high-efficiency small-form-factor rigs for living-room-worthy performance, and purpose-built towers that prioritize raw frame rates, thermal headroom, and upgradeability. This feature pulls together the best pre-built...
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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...
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Amazon Web Services is executing one of its boldest strategic pivots since its inception, accelerating both the geographic breadth of its data center network and deepening its relationship with Nvidia to secure the AI infrastructure that will power the next era of cloud computing. These moves...
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In a significant advancement for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, Microsoft and NVIDIA have announced a deepened collaboration that has resulted in a remarkable 40-fold increase in AI processing speeds within Microsoft's Azure platform. This leap is primarily attributed to the...
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In recent years, the environmental impact of data centers has become an increasingly significant concern as the global demand for cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and digital services ramps up. According to Microsoft’s latest research, released in the high-profile journal Nature...
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As enterprise data centers face a tidal wave of artificial intelligence (AI) demands, the industry finds itself at a crossroads: how can legacy data centers—originally engineered for significantly lighter workloads—adapt to the brute computational force and environmental challenges introduced by...
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The wave of agentic AI is gathering momentum, quietly but steadily redefining what businesses and end-users can expect from technology. The rise of intelligent, proactive, and emotionally aware digital agents is more than a continuation of the AI revolution—it represents a fundamental shift...
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In the intensifying race to minimize the environmental impacts of global cloud infrastructure, Microsoft's newly published study in Nature marks a pivotal advancement for data center sustainability. For the first time, researchers have provided a comprehensive, cradle-to-grave life cycle...
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Microsoft’s New AI Strategy: Slowing Down the Expansion to Accelerate Smarter Growth
In recent months, the tech world has been buzzing with news about Microsoft shifting its approach to artificial intelligence infrastructure. The once unrelenting pace of AI data center expansion is now seeing a...
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