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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Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
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Extinction Rebellion pelt Microsoft data center site with acid-filled balloons
Targets under-construction data center near Sloterdijk Station in Amsterdam
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National Grid Ventures invests $1.75bn in Joulent for construction of gas plant powering 2GW Microsoft data center in Texas
Joulent is a portfolio company of Engine No. 1
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Microsoft's Azure Core CTO latest to join Anthropic
Marcus Fontoura aims to "help build the next generation of AI systems"
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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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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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Microsoft's Eric Boyd joins Anthropic as head of infrastructure
Boyd previously led engineering of hardware and software for AI models on Azure
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Iran makes further threats against Big Tech in the Middle East
Says it is in response to US attempts to kill Iranian leadership
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Microsoft suffered "power interruption" at West US cloud region in February
Details problem in incident report, with full outage avoided
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US Federal Trade Commission ramps up cloud competition investigation into Microsoft
Issues "civil investigative demands" to competitors
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Excavation incident at Finnish data center construction site injures one
Police investigating after stones blasted too far
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Microsoft's Nidhi Chappell joins Nscale as president of AI infrastructure
Chappell was key to Microsoft's OpenAI supercomputer effort
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"Nobody really wants a data center in their backyard," says Microsoft attorney
Hyperscaler's lawyer agrees with its rural opponents
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Microsoft's Richard Hage joins Oracle as VP of data center design
Was the director of global strategy, data center engineering
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Microsoft appoints Judson Althoff as co-CEO to work alongside Satya Nadella
AWS also announces new managing director of AWS European Sovereign Cloud subsidiary
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Microsoft employees arrested during protests against company's ties to Israel
Employees and supporters protested at company's headquarters
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Microsoft launches investigation into Israeli military surveillance agency's use of its cloud platform
While protests are staged at the company's Netherlands data center said to host surveillance data
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"Competition is not working well," says UK CMA concluding cloud market investigation
AWS and Microsoft to undergo further "strategic market status" investigations
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Three arrests in £3m fraud probe involving Microsoft data center in the Netherlands
UK authorities launch raids of six properties
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Goodman Group hires Microsoft’s Kraig Knight as data center operations EVP
As Goodman looks to expand data center offerings
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UK holds first meeting of new AI Energy Council
Attended by the likes of EDF, Ofgem, Google, and Microsoft
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Microsoft to build energy infrastructure technologies team, hiring for transmission tech director
Along with an energy tech researcher to develop "precommercial energy technologies"
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Microsoft to become latest member of CISPE
Just six months after CISPE filed complaint against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices
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Microsoft "investigating" limited Outlook and Teams outage
Mostly impacting European users
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Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits to start own business
Was involved in developing Azure's AI strategy
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Microsoft Research details early-stage modular robotics for data centers
Team behind Silica crabs tackles networking maintenance machines
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Jessica Hinojosa joins Microsoft's carbon removal team from Shell
The company is the largest purchaser of carbon removal projects