Microsoft plans to more than triple its data centre capacity to about 38 gigawatts (GW) by 2032, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the plans. The company currently has about 12GW of capacity, according to Bloomberg’s reporting. Around 2GW is centred on AI-specific chips, while that share is expected to reach about one-third of […]
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Amazon and Qualcomm have agreed to develop multiple generations of customised silicon for AI data centres, with the collaboration covering AI inference and high-speed optical connectivity. Qualcomm announced the agreement recently, saying the companies will develop silicon for Amazon’s AI infrastructure. They are also working on optical connectivity extending to speeds of up to 1.6T, […]
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European defence officials are pushing back against parts of the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act that would introduce stricter sovereignty requirements for cloud services used by military and other sensitive public-sector systems, according to the Financial Times. The report said officials from several EU countries, including eastern and Nordic member states, are concerned […]
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Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have introduced managed private connectivity between their cloud platforms, allowing customers to establish dedicated network links between AWS and Microsoft Azure. AWS Interconnect – multicloud with Azure and Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS are now available in public preview. The two services work together to provide private cloud-to-cloud connectivity without […]
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AWS plans to deploy another two million Nvidia GPUs across its global infrastructure in 2027 and 2028, adding to an earlier commitment for more than one million GPUs. The additional deployment will include Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs. The agreement also covers Nvidia CPUs, networking, and interconnect technology that AWS plans to […]
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Azure VMware Solution customers using VMware Cloud Foundation licences bundled with pay-as-you-go deployments have until October 31, 2026, to move to a bring-your-own-licence model. After that date, Microsoft says those deployments will no longer comply with Broadcom’s licensing requirements unless customers provide their own VCF subscription. Microsoft stopped selling new Azure VMware Solution nodes with […]
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Tencent Cloud plans to establish its first cloud region in Malaysia, while Alibaba Cloud has launched a third data centre in South Korea, adding capacity in two Asian markets as global cloud infrastructure spending continues to rise. Both announcements were made on August 18. Tencent’s planned Malaysia region will comprise up to three availability zones […]
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Amazon is redistributing parts of its e-commerce infrastructure across a wider range of AWS regions amid reported constraints on power and data centre capacity. The multiyear programme, known internally as “Region Flex”, is intended to reduce Amazon’s reliance on several large AWS regions and spread workloads across more locations, according to internal planning documents obtained […]
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IBM is preparing to deploy a large NVIDIA-based AI computing cluster on IBM Cloud under a multiyear agreement with Together AI worth $240 million. The cluster is expected to become available in the first quarter of 2027 and will use NVIDIA HGX B300 systems connected through NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. Together AI plans to use […]
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Oracle and Quantinuum have entered a multi-year partnership to make Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer available through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, giving OCI customers access to quantum hardware alongside existing GPU and high-performance computing services. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the companies did not provide a deployment date. Oracle plans to preview its OCI quantum service […]
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