Microsoft first announced its intentions to enter Denmark in late 2020 and has since signed PPAs and backed carbon capture projects in the country. In 2024, Microsoft revealed that a data center it was developing in Høje-Taastrup would offer its waste heat to local homes.

Their exits may strain Microsoft’s push to expand AI capacity as energy constraints and infrastructure bottlenecks increasingly dictate the pace of cloud growth.

A group including BlackRock, Nvidia and Microsoft is buying Aligned Data Centers in an approximately $40 billion deal in an effort to expand next-generation cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The acquisition comes amid a flurry of deals in ...

Microsoft is set to launch a new cloud region in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2027. In a blog post by Omar Khan, VP of Azure infrastructure marketing, Microsoft announced the upcoming East US 3 region, as well as the expansion of five existing data center regions in the US.

Amazon and Microsoft are the biggest cloud computing companies by market share. Amazon is starting to see its cloud computing revenue accelerate, which should continue into 2026. Microsoft's Azure has been the strong revenue grower of the big three platforms.

Cloud service providers are rapidly expanding AI capabilities, leading to increased capex and major investment in data center infrastructure. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that 80,000 customers, including 80% of Fortune 500 companies, have adopted..

In South Korea, a $35 billion facility under development could be the world’s first large-scale data center designed, built and run by artificial intelligence. The data-center operator said it has a $55 billion sales backlog after a quarter of rapid dealmaking.