Microsoft’s expanding partnership with Iberdrola — announced in mid‑December — bundles two long‑term Spanish wind power PPAs with a deeper Azure and Copilot rollout across the utility group, marking a strategic step in how hyperscalers and utilities are fusing renewable procurement, cloud...
Microsoft’s expansion of a strategic partnership with Iberdrola — combining two Spain-based wind PPAs with deeper Azure, Copilot and AI deployments across the energy group — is a pragmatic example of the tech-energy convergence reshaping how hyperscalers and utilities manage the environmental...
Microsoft and Iberdrola have signed two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Spain that add 150 MW of contracted wind capacity to Microsoft’s European renewable portfolio, and the deal doubles as a strategic technology partnership that will lean on Azure, Microsoft Copilot, and joint...
Iberdrola and Microsoft have taken their decade-long flirtation with energy and cloud services into a deeper strategic embrace: the companies announced long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Spain that secure 150 MW of wind capacity and an expanded technology pact that brings Microsoft...
Iberdrola and Microsoft’s new Spanish PPAs signal a clear acceleration of the tech‑energy marriage: two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPAs) have been signed to cover 150 MW of renewable offtake tied to Iberdrola wind projects in Spain, while the deal sits inside a broader partnership that...
The AI boom has a new choke point: not chips, not code, but electricity — and the industry is waking up to the blunt reality that powering generative-AI at scale is a multi‑year infrastructure problem with economic, regulatory, and environmental consequences. What began as a scramble for GPUs...
ADNOC’s addition of Masdar and XRG to its multi‑party deal with Microsoft reframes a familiar corporate narrative — enterprise AI meets national energy strategy — into an explicit plan to both use AI to decarbonize and to build the low‑carbon power that will enable AI at scale. The agreement...
ADnoc, Masdar, XRG and Microsoft have struck a high‑profile strategic agreement at the ENACT Majlis in Abu Dhabi to accelerate AI deployment across ADNOC’s operations while coordinating renewable energy and infrastructure to support Microsoft’s expanding AI and data‑centre footprint — a deal...
In a move that stitches together the deep pockets of the hydrocarbon business, the global reach of a top renewables developer, and the software and cloud muscle of a hyperscaler, ADNOC, Masdar, XRG and Microsoft have announced a strategic alliance to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI)...
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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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...
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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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NVIDIA and a coalition of partners have announced what they describe as the United Kingdom’s largest coordinated push to build onshore AI supercomputing capacity: an industrial-scale programme of “AI factories” and sovereign compute zones that promises up to £11 billion of investment and as many...
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Microsoft has pledged a record-breaking £22 billion to the United Kingdom over the next four years in a sweeping commitment to build cloud and AI infrastructure, expand operations, and anchor advanced AI compute inside the country — a package the company says will “power the AI future” in...
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Saudi Arabia’s deserts are rapidly being repurposed into one of the world’s most aggressive canvases for hyperscale data center expansion, a strategic pivot that combines vast land, cheap and increasingly green power, direct subsea connectivity, and state-backed capital to attract the biggest...
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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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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