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North America Datacenter Trends
Microsoft secures Chevron power for AI buildout
Microsoft and Chevron sign a 20-year power deal for Project Kilby, linking West Texas generation with AI data centre capacity.

Global Datacenter Trends
Microsoft targets AI data centre optical bottlenecks with MicroLED
Microsoft is developing MicroLED cabling and Hollow Core Fibre to cut AI data centre power use, distance limits and latency.

Global Cloud Services Trends
Microsoft unveils AI-redesigned Majorana 2 quantum chip
Microsoft is a major cloud and AI infrastructure provider whose quantum hardware progress could shape future enterprise computing, cybersecurity and scientific workloads.

Global Cloud Services Trends
AI drives Q1 cloud spend to $128.6bn, up 35%
AI demand pushed Q1 cloud spend to $128.6bn with 35% growth, led by AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud dominance.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Microsoft faces $2.8bn UK class action over cloud licensing
UK court allows class action alleging Microsoft cloud licensing inflates rival platform costs, raising concerns over cloud market competition.
