Microsoft’s $3.3 billion Fairwater data center in Wisconsin will house hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs while reducing water and energy use.

The move follows an investigation by the Guardian and two Israeli publications that found the Israeli military had used the company’s cloud platform to surveil Palestinians.

Microsoft Fabric expands as industry analysts reveal critical criteria enterprises need for evaluating AI-ready data platforms.

Microsoft Corp. today is expanding its Fabric data platform with the addition of native graph database and geospatial mapping capabilities, saying the enhancements enhance Fabric’s capacity to power artificial intelligence-driven, data-centric applications in large enterprises.

Israel’s military had been using Microsoft’s AI translation services and cloud storage to aid in the war in Gaza

We’re in a hinge moment for AI. The experiments are over and the real work has begun. Centralizing data, once the finish line, is now the starting point. The definition of “AI readiness” is evolving as increasingly sophisticated agents demand rich,

Wednesday, at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Seattle, Microsoft made numerous announcements about data platform solutions. The biggest of those announcements is the new Fabric Analytics software-as-a-service offering, which is now generally available.

Snowflake SNOW and Microsoft MSFT are major players in the expanding cloud data platform market. Snowflake provides a scalable data warehouse with integrated AI and machine learning. Microsoft delivers a suite of data services on Azure, such as Synapse ...