Microsoft today confirmed that customers will be able to run cloud workloads from its Saudi Arabia East datacenter region from Q4 2026, marking a major milestone in the company’s long-term investment ...

The focus of this new AI accelerator is inference— the production deployment of AI models in applications. Its architecture combines high compute performance with a newly designed memory system and a ...

In this post, we will show you how to use VibeVoice Text to Speech AI from Microsoft. VibeVoice is a next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) AI framework that converts written text into natural, ...

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 ...

Microsoft is proposing to build 15 new data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The proposed expansion would add approximately 8.7 million square feet to its operations in Racine County. These plans ...

Microsoft is seeking approval to build 15 more data centers on the former Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant. Plans call for two large clusters of data centers, each spanning hundreds of thousands of ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a series of commitments intended to assuage a growing backlash to the data center building boom. The company held up Quincy — where it has been building data centers ...

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Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith laid out a plan Tuesday to reduce the tech giant’s impact on electricity bills and water resources amid growing local opposition across the country to AI ...

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would be taking a series of steps toward becoming a “good neighbor” in communities where it is building data centers—including promising to ask public utilities to ...

Microsoft (MSFT) announced today it has acquired Osmos, an agentic artificial intelligence data engineering platform designed to simplify complex data workflows. No financial details on the ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on Jan 5, 2026 at 2:28 ...