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Microsoft makes US$17.5 billion pledge for AI cloud in India

The country is also home to some of the world’s largest technology services companies, such as Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys

“We’re always looking at the opportunities to grow in Singapore", said Microsoft's vice president for energy Bobby Hollis

Microsoft ‘aggressively’ looking at South-east Asian clean energy projects amid data centre boom

The tech giant will also ‘take a very close look’ at Singapore’s latest call to build new data centres

The move comes as Microsoft’s suite, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint, faces growing competition from Google’s products.

Microsoft to lift productivity suite prices for businesses, governments

The company says that the changes reflect more than 1,100 new features added across Microsoft 365

AI chip powerhouse Nvidia committed up to US$10 billion while Microsoft - which owns 27 per cent of Anthropic rival OpenAI - pledged up to US$5 billion to the maker of Claude AI models.

Nvidia, Microsoft invest US$15 billion in AI startup Anthropic

The massive investment comes a month after Nvidia announced it will pump as much as US$100 billion into OpenAI

Nvidia, the world’s dominant chipmaker, has previously said the GAIN AI Act stands to restrict global competition for advanced chips, limiting computing power available to other countries.

Amazon, Microsoft back effort to restrict Nvidia’s exports to China: WSJ

AMAZON is joining Microsoft in backing legislation to further curb chipmaker Nvidia’s ability to export chips to China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the ma...

Microsoft is also expanding its computing infrastructure to meet surging demand for AI services.

Microsoft to invest US$10 billion in Portugal AI data hub

The company is building the hub with Start Campus, a Portuguese developer, and British startup Nscale

Laurence Si, managing director of Microsoft Malaysia, says the cloud region will deliver Microsoft’s most comprehensive cloud and artificial intelligence services to date.

Microsoft launches second cloud region in Johor Bahru, boosting Malaysia data-centre development

This cloud region aims to support regional-scale workloads, multinational users and data-intensive AI systems

Microsoft is struggling to secure enough cloud capacity to fully satisfy demand for its Azure services.

Microsoft signs US$9.7 billion AI cloud deal with Australia’s IREN to secure Nvidia systems

Once fully implemented, the deal is expected to generate about US$1.94 billion a year for IREN

Now that the staggering cost of this push is coming into sharper focus, it’s testing nerves on Wall Street.

Tech giants test investors’ patience with AI spending spree

Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Microsoft, together have racked up some US$78 billion in capital expenditures last quarter