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Microsoft pulls out of delayed Nscale data center in Loughton, Essex
Would have been Nscale's anchor tenant at the site
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ChronoScale and Microsoft partner on 50MW deployment in North America
Will be based on Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems
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Lambda secures $1bn private debt to purchase Nvidia GPUs - report
Chips will be leased to Microsoft
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Former Microsoft researcher launches data center robotics startup
Exclaim Robotics secures $4.95m in pre-seed funding to build first bots
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Microsoft to spend billions on GPUs for European AI lab Mistral
Will expand AI infrastructure capacity in Europe
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Microsoft shareholders file lawsuit over AI and cloud spending and business disclosures
Claims Microsoft misled investors about the financial impact of AI investment
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Microsoft wraps up investigation into Israeli military's use of its cloud platform
Posits some steps to improve effectiveness of its human rights governance
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Microsoft launches VMs based on Cobalt 200 chip in preview, Maia 200 already in production
Announced at Microsoft Build 2026
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Elemental Impact launches intitiative with major hyperscalers to accelerate energy and materials technology development
Partner companies include Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft
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Kawasaki partners with Nvidia and Microsoft to integrate AI with robotics at new center in San Jose, California - report
Center set to house robots to be used for demonstrations with US partner companies
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Anthropic in talks to use Microsoft's custom Maia AI chips - report
Remain in early stages and may not progress to an agreement
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Nscale to deploy 66,000+ Rubin GPUs for Microsoft in Portugal
Two companies scale up agreement for Sines Data Campus
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Microsoft contracts 30,000 GPUs from Nscale at Norway data center as OpenAI drops out of latest Stargate
OpenAI continues Stargate retreat
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Microsoft and Armada bring Azure Local to Galleon modular data centers
Two work together to bring sovereign AI to Armada's Edge modules
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Microsoft claims to be first hyperscaler to "power on" Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 system
Plus the other clouds set to adopt the latest generation of Nvidia AI infrastructure
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Microsoft and Meta commit to $50bn in additional data center leases in most recent quarter
Brings overall future leases for hyperscalers to more than $700bn
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Microsoft in talks for the Crusoe Abilene capacity OpenAI's Stargate skipped - report
Could lease hundreds of megawatts of capacity
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US' ICE triples use of Microsoft cloud in six months
Has extensively grown use of cloud storage and AI tools
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Anthropic cloud spend expected to reach $80bn through 2029
Will be split across AWS, Google, and Microsoft
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Anthropic raises $30bn from GIC, Coatue, D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, and others
Includes some of the previously promised investment from Microsoft and Nvidia
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Perplexity signs $750m cloud agreement with Microsoft
Company says AWS remains its "preferred" infrastructure provider
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Moody’s predicts $3 trillion global data center investment over five years
The staggering sum is required to keep pace with AI-driven capacity growth
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MISO partners with Microsoft to deploy AI tools in effort to modernize grid planning and operations
Microsoft will provide access to Azure and Foundry AI technologies
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Elon Musk pushed for OpenAI to work with Microsoft
Court documents show Musk helped facilitate the partnership he now condemns
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Aalo Atomics partners with Microsoft to accelerate nuclear permitting process using AI
Will leverage Microsoft's Generative AI for Energy Permitting Solution Accelerator
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Microsoft's neocloud spending surpasses $60bn
Nscale alone contributes $23bn
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Microsoft signs multi-billion-dollar cloud capacity deal with Lambda
Yet another massive compute commitment made by the cloud giant
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Microsoft signs $9.7bn cloud capacity deal with Iren
Spanning five years, Microsoft will access Iren's Nvidia GB300 GPUs