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When Should a Company Stop Renting AI and Start Owning It?
Buying AI by the request works fine for experiments. Once it becomes a daily business operation, the maths can flip completely.

Google bets 13 billion euros on Finland in its biggest European investment ever
The tech giant will pour 13 billion euros into AI data-centre infrastructure in Finland, drawn by available land, a cold climate and an unusually reliable power grid.

Oracle's AI cloud business just had its best quarter ever. What the numbers actually mean.
Revenue hit $19.35 billion, cloud infrastructure more than doubled, and the company has taken on over $100 billion in debt to build data centres for AI. Big quarter. Bigger bet.

Oracle says AI agents will speed up software rollouts, not kill the software business
At its Q1 FY2027 earnings call, Oracle argued that AI assistants will make its business software easier to use and faster to deploy, while its cloud computing arm posted 60 percent revenue growth.

Qualcomm Lands AWS Partnership to Build AI Data Centre Chips, Shares Jump 10%
Amazon just handed Qualcomm its second major cloud endorsement in months, and the market noticed.

Reliance Jio opens its cloud PC service to all Indian internet users
JioPC lets people run a virtual computer through any internet connection, no new hardware required. At roughly $11 for two months, it targets the millions of Indians whose ageing machines can't run modern AI software.

Lambda Borrows $1 Billion to Buy Nvidia Chips, Then Rents Them to Microsoft
The AI cloud company is using short-term debt to fund a chip-leasing deal with one of the world's biggest tech companies. Bloomberg first reported the news, and it tells you a lot about how the AI buildout is actually being paid for.

Amazon Is Buying Two Million More Nvidia Chips as AI Demand Blows Past Forecasts
The two companies are deepening a partnership that now covers warehouse robots and cloud software, not just the chips that power AI.

Nvidia's $20 Billion Groq Bet Goes Live: What It Means for AI Speed
Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX racks are now in full production and will be online later this year, promising AI responses more than four times faster than OpenAI's current top speed.

Nvidia plans to raise AI server prices by more than 15% for major customers
The chipmaker is set to push up the cost of its most advanced AI server systems next year, hit by soaring memory chip bills it can no longer absorb alone.

Alibaba's Profit Falls 75% as the Company Bets Big on AI
The Chinese tech giant is pouring money into data centres and chips. Investors are nervous, and shares slid 4% on the news.

Planned London datacentre would emit more carbon per year than 27,000 transatlantic flights
Planning documents for a vast AI data facility on London's green belt show annual emissions topping one million tonnes of CO2, raising serious questions about whether AI infrastructure can ever be squared with net-zero commitments.

Groq raises $350 million after ditching its own chips for Nvidia's
Once an Nvidia rival, the startup is now an Nvidia customer. Here is what happened and what it means for the cloud companies racing to run your AI.

AI Agents Are Quietly Draining a Resource Nobody Saw Coming: the Humble CPU
Amazon Web Services is rationing CPU capacity, Intel has sold out of server chips, and AMD has doubled its forecast. The AI boom just got a new bottleneck.

Enterprises are buying AI computing power for speed, but most have no idea what it costs
A survey of 170 companies finds two-thirds are running live AI systems, yet fewer than half can say with any rigour what that computing infrastructure actually costs them.