ARE YOU BEAUTIFUL? I THINK I AM PRESCOTT BALCH AND HIS HORSES. BREATHING A SIGH OF RELIEF WEDNESDAY. AS MICROSOFT SAYS, IT’S PULLING BACK ON ITS DATA CENTER PLANTS ON A SPECIFIC PLOT OF CALEDONIA LAND ...

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual “Inside Azure Innovations” presentations give us a look at cooling innovations, bare-metal servers, and better storage. As 2025 comes to an end, it seems fitting to ...

Microsoft repurposed the former Foxconn site in Wisconsin, once slated for a $10 billion factory that never materialized. Andy Manis/Getty Images To address concerns about water consumption, cooling ...

Microsoft offered a glimpse inside its $3.3 billion data center project in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, providing insight into the network powering what it claims to be the "world’s most powerful data ...

The data center industry is the backbone of the AI business, and the AI business, as we all know, is where the money’s at these days. As AI becomes the unstable center of America’s weird new economy, ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday tweeted a video of his company’s first deployed massive AI system — or AI “factory” as Nvidia likes to call them. He promised this is the “first of many” such ...

Microsoft EVP of Cloud + AI Scott Guthrie says the goal is to be able to 10X the AI training every 18-24 months. This likely includes maintaining the 2-4X pace of chip improvement. Satya Nadella gave ...

One of the major reasons why artificial intelligence data centers are sucking up so much power is the need to cool processors that run very hot. But Microsoft Corp. is trying out a possible solution: ...

The latest deal between Anthropic, Microsoft and Nvidia is not just another funding round, it is a bet that pairs enormous cloud spending with equally outsized equity. Anthropic is committing tens of ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich explains why serverless is the future of cloud computing. This year, Microsoft launched new serverless products.

The company shelled out nearly $11 billion for property and equipment in the third quarter — 66% more than it spent in the same period a year ago.

Microsoft has ended access to its data centers for a unit of the Israeli military that helped power a massive surveillance operation against Palestinian civilians, according to a report by The ...