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...
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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Australian Data Centres’ new hires mark a decisive pivot from a single-site, Canberra-focused operator to an ambitious, nationally scaled provider positioning itself for sovereign, AI-ready, and hyperscale workloads.
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Australian Data Centres (ADC) — a privately owned...
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The rapid expansion of AI-focused data centers has moved from a niche infrastructure story into a full-blown national policy and utility challenge: soaring electricity demand is forcing utilities and regulators to rewrite the rules on who pays for grid upgrades, while hyperscalers respond by...
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A major cyber risk alert has rocked the world of renewable energy management, as EG4 Electronics faces a constellation of high-severity vulnerabilities impacting its entire fleet of solar inverters. The sweeping flaws, affecting every major EG4 inverter model, reveal just how exposed the bedrock...
Racing to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence and cloud computing, Microsoft has announced plans for a record-breaking $30 billion in capital expenditures during the current quarter, an unprecedented outlay designed to accelerate the construction of next-generation data centers...
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Microsoft’s latest quarterly financial report confirms the scale and speed of the cloud revolution now reshaping the enterprise technology world. With Azure at the heart of its strategy, Microsoft has posted record-shattering results and executed one of the largest data centre expansions in...
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The dawn of practical nuclear fusion power—a milestone long held as science fiction’s holy grail—has arrived in the form of Helion Energy’s recent step: the groundbreaking construction of the first commercial fusion power plant, with the ambitious goal of supplying electricity directly to...
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The evolution of the energy grid has quickly become one of the defining technological challenges of our time. As the lines between traditional utilities, critical infrastructure, and digital ecosystems blur, the quest to reimagine grid operations with artificial intelligence (AI) stands out as...
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the technological landscape, bringing with it a host of benefits—from streamlining work processes to fueling advancements in healthcare, finance, and education. OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft's Copilot have become household names for...
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Artificial intelligence has swiftly moved from the realm of speculative fiction to the engine room of global industry, unleashing transformative change across virtually every sector—and nowhere is this revolution more intensely felt than within the world of energy infrastructure and digital...
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Microsoft's decision to establish a $3.3 billion artificial intelligence (AI) data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, marks a significant milestone in the state's technological and economic landscape. This investment not only underscores Microsoft's commitment to expanding its cloud and AI...
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Microsoft's ambitious $3.3 billion investment in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, marks a significant milestone in the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and its integration into the manufacturing sector. This initiative encompasses the construction of a state-of-the-art data...
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Microsoft’s ambitions to more than double its datacenter capacity across Europe by 2027 underscore not only the sheer speed at which cloud demand is accelerating, but also the mounting friction between technology expansion and European regulatory, environmental, and infrastructural realities. At...
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Tesla’s complex relationship with artificial intelligence continues to attract global attention as the company pursues technology-driven disruption across multiple industries. Despite facing formidable challenges—including a highly publicized spat between CEO Elon Musk and the US President, and...
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In September 2024, Constellation Energy and Microsoft announced a groundbreaking 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) aimed at revitalizing the Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania. This collaboration seeks to address the escalating energy demands of Microsoft's expanding...
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Collaboration stands as the indispensable linchpin in the global fight to decarbonize the supply chains of technology giants, and nowhere is this more evident than at Microsoft’s recent Global Supplier Sustainability Summit in Singapore. In a world grappling with the intensifying consequences of...
The global race to harness the transformative power of artificial intelligence is no longer confined to the improvement of machine learning algorithms or the rapid development of large language models—it now squarely hinges on infrastructure. Microsoft, long recognized as a technology titan, has...
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The act of asking a question of an AI, whether it’s a request for a quick recipe or an in-depth analysis, feels almost effortless for users—but behind those neatly packaged answers lies a global infrastructure consuming staggering amounts of energy and water. As artificial intelligence...
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Over the past decade, East Africa has witnessed a transformative journey in bridging its connectivity gap, largely driven by innovative partnerships and technological advancements. Central to this progress has been the collaboration between Microsoft and local entities, notably Mawingu, aiming...
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