REDMOND, Wash., and BRACKLEY, U.K. — Jan. 22, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. and the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team on Thursday announced a multiyear partnership that puts Microsoft’s technologies at the heart ...

Microsoft has committed to “paying its way” to ensure its data centers will not ramp up residential utility rates, becoming the first major hyperscaler to publicly commit to a comprehensive framework ...

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Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

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Microsoft used its annual conference to roll out sweeping updates across Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Fabric, PostgreSQL and SQL Server tooling, signaling broad investments in performance, scalability ...

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U.S. tech giant Microsoft has connected two of its large data centers across Wisconsin and Atlanta to create an “AI superfactory” that accelerates the training process of new AI models at scale.

Microsoft MSFT-0.13%decrease; red down pointing triangle is expanding its ambitious data center build-out with an AI “super factory,” a set of two-story structures in Atlanta aimed at connecting ...

OpenAI, Mistral AI, and Elon Musk's xAI will use the facility alongside Microsoft's own AI model training operations. Microsoft, with a market cap of nearly $3.78 trillion, gained 19% year-to-date.

In Atlanta, Microsoft has flipped the switch on a new class of datacenter – one that doesn’t stand alone but joins a dedicated network of sites functioning as an AI superfactory to accelerate AI ...