Data Center

Can Microsoft really meet its carbon-negative goal by 2030?

The arrival of genAI in 2022 — and Microsoft’s prominent role in the technology’s advance — could make the company’s environmental goals harder to reach.

IT lesson from the Iran war: AI makes your data problems so much worse

Enterprise IT has struggled with keeping data clean and accurate for decades. But AI can supercharge the problems caused by bad data.

Caught in the Iranian War crossfire: Big Tech, Microsoft and Windows

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has hit the oil industry hard. But Iran is also attacking Persian Gulf countries that have been big investors in the current AI boom, which could seriously hurt companies like Microsoft.

Data mining? Old servers could become new source of rare earths

News that a Korean smelter is in talks with US firms to extract rare earths viewed as ‘a structural shift … inside the global technology infrastructure economy.’

Democratizing AI adoption with Tether's Bitnet LLM fine-tuning framework

Enterprise Spotlight: Data Center Modernization

Download the March 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World and learn how data center modernization is taking shape in 2026.

Data stored in glass could last over 10,000 years, Microsoft says

Borosilicate glass, the same material used in lab equipment and kitchen cookware, can encode data using femtosecond lasers at densities and lifespans no existing archival medium can match, according to Microsoft researchers.