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Mexico's AI Revolution: CloudHQ's $4.8B Querétaro Campus Positions Country as Computing Hub
Mexico is rapidly emerging as a strategic artificial intelligence computing hub as CloudHQ announces a massive $4.8 billion investment in a six-building data center campus in Querétaro. This...
Microsoft's Microfluidics Cooling: Revolutionizing AI Chip Density and Performance
Microsoft is pushing the boundaries of semiconductor technology with embedded microfluidics cooling, a cutting-edge approach that routes liquid through microscopic channels etched directly into...
Microsoft's $3.3B AI Factory Packs 10x Supercomputer Speed—What It Means for Your Cloud Workloads
Microsoft this week pulled the curtain back on Fairwater, a $3.3 billion AI campus in Wisconsin that CEO Satya Nadella says will deliver 10 times the performance of today’s fastest supercomputer...
Fairwater AI Datacenter: Microsoft’s $7B Bet on 10X Supercomputer Performance
On September 18, 2025, Microsoft confirmed it will pour an additional $4 billion into building a second AI datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin—more than doubling its investment in the site to...
Microsoft's Wisconsin AI Factory: How 72-GPU Racks and Liquid Cooling Could Supercharge the Cloud
On September 18, 2025, Microsoft revealed Fairwater—a 315-acre AI datacenter campus in Wisconsin that is more silicon foundry than server farm. Each rack inside holds 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...
Kingston's New Gen5 Enterprise SSD Goes Mainstream with 14 GB/s Speeds and Off-the-Shelf Availability
Kingston has started shipping its first PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSD, the DC3000ME, and the biggest news isn’t just the speed—it’s how you can buy it. The U.2 drive is now available through standard...
UK’s Largest AI Supercomputer: Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA Plan 23,040-GPU Campus
Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI have unveiled plans for the UK’s largest AI supercomputer—a 23,040-GPU campus in Loughton, Essex—alongside a sovereign compute platform called Stargate UK....
Inside the £11B Plan to Put 120,000 AI GPUs on UK Soil — and What It Means for Your Work
NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, and a coalition of infrastructure partners are making the largest-ever bet on UK-based AI compute: a sprawling programme that aims to deploy up to 120,000 NVIDIA...
Oracle's $144B Cloud Gamble: How the AI-First OCI Plan Affects Your Windows Workloads
On September 10, Oracle stunned Wall Street with a fiscal 2026 revenue forecast that projects its cloud infrastructure business will reach $144 billion by fiscal 2030—placing it squarely in...
UK to Get 23,000-GPU AI Supercomputer from Microsoft and Nscale, Plus OpenAI’s Stargate UK Platform
Microsoft, Nscale, NVIDIA, and OpenAI have cemented a multi‑billion‑pound plan to bring sovereign AI compute to the UK, headlined by the country’s largest ever AI supercomputer. The...
Microsoft pledges £22 billion for UK AI future, building largest supercomputer with 23,000 GPUs
Microsoft has unveiled a £22 billion ($30 billion) investment plan for the United Kingdom — the largest single-country commitment in the company’s history. Running from 2025 to 2028, the package...
Microsoft’s AI-Fueled Double-Digit Growth Goal: What It Means for Your PC, Software, and Cloud Bills
In late January 2025, Microsoft told investors it expects the current fiscal year to deliver another round of double-digit revenue and operating-income growth—a more confident stance than the...