Microsoft to invest $300m in cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa
Will also launch program to improve young peoples' digital skills
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Microsoft to invest $704m into expanding Polish data centers
Company expanding AI infrastructure in Poland
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Microsoft to spend $80bn on AI data centers in 2025
Company says US will have to be smart to win AI race with China
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Microsoft invests €4.3bn in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy
Will expand in Northern Italy
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Microsoft and Abu Dhabi's MGX to back $30bn BlackRock AI infrastructure fund
Nvidia to advise the data center and energy investment effort
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Microsoft buys 205 acres near Racine County data center development for $34m
Adding to the 1,000 acres it already owns
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Microsoft pays €20m to settle dispute with CISPE and European cloud providers
Avoids an EU antitrust investigation and potential heavy fine
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Microsoft to spend €4bn on French data centers, signs first French PPAs
AWS also commits to French funding
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Microsoft to invest $3.3bn in Wisconsin AI data center
Reveals it is co-funding a 250MW solar energy project
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Microsoft invests $1.5bn in UAE-based AI firm G42
Deal with G42 includes $1bn development fund
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Brad Smith: Microsoft to spend $2.9bn on Japanese data centers
Investment will boost AI capabilities
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Microsoft to invest $2.1bn in cloud and AI infrastructure in Spain
Follows similar investment in Germany
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Microsoft to invest €3.2bn in doubling AI infrastructure and cloud capacity in Germany
Will also train up skilled workers
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Microsoft's $68.7bn Activision Blizzard acquisition approved by UK regulators
After a cloud gaming restructure
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Microsoft to sell Activision Blizzard cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft
Cloud giant is restructuring its $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard deal
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Microsoft data center contractor fired workers for protesting wage theft, union claims
Dulles Drywall laid off 47 employees working on a Virginia data center
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Microsoft names White House staffer Melanie Nakagawa as chief sustainability officer
After the last one left to join a private equity firm
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Ukraine awards Microsoft and AWS peace prize for cloud services & digital support
"AWS literally saved our digital infrastructure," minister says amid Russia invasion
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Microsoft adjusts cloud licenses to avoid EU antitrust inquiry
President Brad Smith appeases EU by allowing software onto rival clouds
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Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia, following similar moves by Oracle and SAP
Potentially cutting the company off from both Azure and Xbox
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Microsoft to build Azure Cloud region in Vienna, Austria
The news follows Microsoft's latest cloud region expansion in Greece
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Microsoft to build three data centers in Athens, Greece
For an economic impact of $1bn
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Microsoft plans to recycle its servers at on-campus facilities
A 'Microsoft Circular Center' is being piloted in Amsterdam
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Halliburton to close its data centers, move to Microsoft Azure cloud
Despite growing criticism of cloud companies' oil contracts
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Microsoft plans to build data center region in New Zealand
New Zealand hopes it can keep its data secure by letting cloud providers set up shop
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Microsoft promises to be carbon negative by 2030
But will still sell Azure to Big Oil
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Microsoft defends working with the US military: "They will have access to the best technology that we create"
Following internal disagreement over its efforts to win the JEDI cloud contract