Perplexity secures $750 million Microsoft cloud pact amid Amazon legal feud
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
AWS launches independent sovereign cloud to completely sever U.S. data ties
€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
Europe’s $10 billion push for Digital Sovereignty: Building an alternative to US hyperscalers
Brussels and Berlin lead federation project to escape CLOUD Act jurisdiction and control critical data. The European Union has significantly accelerated its multi-year, multi-billion dollar initiative to break free from its economic and regulatory dependence on American technology behemoths like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. This strategic push, framed as a matter of "digital sovereignty," centers on creating a new, pan-European cloud
AWS storage gateway expands hybrid reach, adds support for Nutanix AHV Hypervisor
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
Global data centre deals hit record $61 billion in 2025 as insatiable demand for AI compute continues
High demand for the physical backbone of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom has propelled worldwide data center dealmaking to a new peak, reaching approximately $61 billion through November 2025. This record value, which surpasses the $60.81 billion record set in 2024, is fuelled by what analysts are calling a "global construction frenzy" to keep pace with the power-hungry requirements of generative AI. The data, compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence, reveals that ove
