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Microsoft has flipped the switch on a purpose-built Fairwater datacenter near Atlanta — a second, operational node Microsoft now says is joined with its original Wisconsin site to form what the company calls the world’s first planet‑scale AI superfactory. Background: what Microsoft announced and...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have just re‑shaped the AI landscape with a wave of strategic partnerships and infrastructure commitments that accelerate Azure’s push into rack‑scale AI, widen model choice inside Microsoft Copilot, and underscore a new era where compute contracts and data‑center...

Microsoft has switched the scale dial on AI infrastructure from “very large” to planet-scale, unveiling a purpose-built Fairwater datacenter in Atlanta that Microsoft says — and many industry observers now agree — is the backbone of a new Azure AI “superfactory.” The facility links to the first...

Valve’s new Steam Machine landing in the living room — a compact, SteamOS‑first mini‑PC that promises a plug‑and‑play console feel while keeping the openness of a PC — has sparked a serious reappraisal of whether Windows 11 can remain the default platform for mainstream PC gaming. Background /...

Microsoft and NVIDIA’s joint announcements at GTC DC mark a decisive step toward turning rack-scale supercomputing and multimodal reasoning models into enterprise-grade, production-ready tools — from on‑premises Azure Local appliances to cloud‑scale GB300 NVL72 clusters and new model families in...