For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

Microsoft Unveils Glass Storage That Could Preserve Data for 10,000 Years Your email has been sent Microsoft has just hit a major milestone in a project that could end the digital dark age. Their ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...

Microsoft and international neocloud provider, G42 set to expand the UAE’s digital infrastructure with a 200-megawatt (MW) increase in datacenter capacity As part of Microsoft’s $15.2 billion ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

Superconducting cables could make for more compact data centers. Superconducting cables could make for more compact data centers. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment ...

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 ...

Although public backlash against data centers has been intense over the past 12 months, all of the tech industry’s biggest companies have promised additional buildouts of AI infrastructure in the ...

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 says it will ask to pay higher electricity bills in areas where it’s building data centers, in an effort to prevent electricity prices for local residents from rising in those areas. The ...

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 ...