Beijing pivots to "Space Cloud" as energy crises on earth threatens AI ambitions. China has officially announced accelerated efforts to develop space-based data centers as part of a broader five-year technological and aerospace initiative, signalling a new frontier in global computing infrastructure and space competition. The goal? To construct gigawatt-class solar-powered data centers in orbit, effectively moving the energy-intensive burden of AI processing away from Earth’s

Amazon’s Cloud division hits fastest pace in three years; Microsoft shares slump as "capacity constraints" mute Azure’s AI gains. The multi-year "Cloud Wars" took a sharp turn last week, as Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a massive revenue surge that defied broader market fears of a sector-wide slowdown. The cloud giant posted a 24% year-over-year increase in revenue, reaching $35.6 billion for the quarter. On the other hand, Microsoft Azure disappointed investors with gro

AI search startup diversifies infrastructure with three-year azure deal, gaining access to "frontier models" from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. Editorial credit: miss.cabul / Shutterstock In a major strategic shift that highlights the increasingly complex alliances of the AI era, Perplexity AI has signed a $750 million, three-year cloud agreement with Microsoft. Reported on January 30, 2026, the deal allows the high-growth search startup to utilize Microsoft Azure AI Foundry as

€7.8 billion investment unlocks physically separate infrastructure managed exclusively by EU residents. In a major concession to European regulators and privacy advocates, Amazon Web Services (AWS) officially launched the AWS European Sovereign Cloud last week. The new platform is not merely a new "region," but a physically and logically independent cloud environment located entirely within the European Union, designed to operate without any critical dependencies on infrastru

Move aims to capture workloads fleeing VMware, offering Nutanix users seamless access to S3 Cloud storage Amazon Web Services (AWS) has bolstered its hybrid cloud portfolio by adding native support for the Nutanix AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) within its AWS Storage Gateway service. This integration allows organizations running Nutanix’s hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to connect their on-premises workloads directly to AWS's virtually unlimited cloud storage, primarily Amaz