US-listed Alpha Compute is expanding its confidential GPU-as-a-service offering in India by partnering with local data centers. The company says demand from clients including Telegram is driving the push, with a focus on low-latency AI infrastructure. The expansion follows a rebrand from a digital asset treasury platform to a secure AI infrastructure provider.
India’s mining industry is starting to move beyond a compliance-only sustainability mindset toward a more proactive model expected to boost decision-making and efficiency across the entire mining value chain. A new report flags cloud and edge technologies as key to handling varied operations, enabling faster, data-driven management of complex sites and processes.
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CoreWeave has topped revenue expectations, driven by surging demand for its high performance cloud and computing services. These capabilities are increasingly essential for training and deploying artificial intelligence models. The company also landed major deals with Meta, Jane Street, and Anthropic, strengthening its position as a central player in the race to build AI infrastructure.
IBM has partnered with Yotta Data Services to roll out an agentic AI platform designed for Indian government bodies and businesses. The system will run on Yotta’s Shakti Cloud, focusing on secure and compliant AI adoption. The deal also brings IBM’s sovereign core to Yotta’s cloud infrastructure, aiming to strengthen data control as organizations deploy autonomous AI.
Cloud companies are riding the AI surge with rapidly rising spending on AI infrastructure, including billions pledged for upcoming years. At the same time, AI chip competition is intensifying, even as Nvidia’s valuation climbs. New entrants are challenging the status quo, signaling a shifting technology landscape for data handling, compute, and long-term investment priorities.
As India’s AI and cloud sectors surge, water management is emerging as a new pressure point. Researchers say these fast-growing technologies could drive large annual water demand, intensifying local resource stress. The Centre, however, insists industry is deploying advanced cooling systems to cut both water use and energy consumption, aiming to balance growth with sustainability.
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Karnataka plans to set up 1,000 MW of data parks across Bengaluru, Mysuru, and Mangaluru to accelerate industrial growth. A 500 MW project near Bengaluru is slated to run on solar power and treated water, while Mangaluru will host a large facility spanning 350 acres. The state says it will guarantee power and water for investors.
Alphabet’s cloud business is accelerating faster than Amazon and Microsoft, with Google’s AI tools increasingly driving demand. Meanwhile, Big Tech’s AI spending is set to exceed $700 billion this year, as companies race to build the infrastructure behind next-gen models. Investors are watching the link between AI investment and cloud growth closely.
Microsoft’s latest quarter delivered 29% cloud growth, with Microsoft Cloud revenue hitting $54.5 billion. Total revenue rose 18% to $82.9 billion and net profit climbed 23% to $31.8 billion. The company’s AI annual revenue run rate now exceeds $37 billion, but management warns it’s supply constrained through 2026 while capex ramps to an estimated $190 billion for 2026.
Amazon says its AWS cloud business is bringing in more money than expected, signaling strong momentum in the segment. But the company’s CEO also warned that heavy capital spending will continue for the near term, even as profits rise. The result: investors may see upside from AWS alongside costs needed to support growth.
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Satya Nadella says Microsoft is ready to “fully exploit” the latest OpenAI agreement, where Microsoft can offer OpenAI technology to its cloud customers. The key twist: Microsoft reportedly doesn’t have to pay for the underlying tech, turning the partnership into a potentially high-margin distribution opportunity for Microsoft’s cloud business.
Google Cloud has crossed $20B in quarterly revenue for the first time, driven by accelerating AI-related workloads. Yet the company warns that the pace of growth was held back by capacity constraints, implying it may have delivered even higher revenue if more infrastructure had been available. Investors are watching how quickly Google can expand resources to meet demand.
Amazon reported a stronger first-quarter profit and revenue, with cloud growth, AI investments, new partnerships, and expanded delivery helping drive net sales higher. The company also offered a solid sales outlook, but shares slipped after hours as investors scrutinized spending plans and flagged rising tariff and shipping costs across global operations.
Amazon Web Services outperformed Wall Street’s cloud forecasts, powered by rising enterprise spending on AI adoption. AWS revenue grew strongly as Amazon deepened AI partnerships and expanded infrastructure. Yet the stock fell after a weaker-than-expected outlook for the coming quarter’s operating income, highlighting how heavy AI investments may weigh on near-term profits before monetization arrives.
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Investors managing over $1 trillion have asked Alphabet for a meeting, pressing for clearer safeguards on how its cloud and AI technologies are used by governments for surveillance. The group says intervention controls in high-risk contexts appear insufficient. Alphabet had previously opposed a shareholder resolution, arguing that existing disclosures and frameworks already address the concerns.
YottaData Services and Gorilla Technology Group are expanding their AI infrastructure partnership with a deal valued at about $2.8 billion. The plan calls for deploying an additional 20,736 GPU cards in India, with rollout targeted to complete by September 30, 2026. The expansion is expected to meaningfully lift the nation’s AI compute capacity.
Microsoft and OpenAI have overhauled their partnership terms, reducing exclusivity and giving OpenAI room to broaden ChatGPT across competing cloud platforms. Microsoft says the update keeps OpenAI’s commitment to use Azure in place, but adds flexibility to expand enterprise offerings. The shift signals a major rewrite of how OpenAI scales with multiple infrastructure partners.
Microsoft’s shares fell after OpenAI ended their exclusivity arrangement, stripping Microsoft of exclusive access to key OpenAI technology. The companies will still work together, with Microsoft staying a primary cloud partner through 2032, but OpenAI can now partner with other cloud providers. Market reaction reflects concerns that Microsoft’s AI edge and economics may face tighter competition.
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Microsoft’s stock fell 2–3% after its OpenAI deal lost exclusivity, ending Microsoft’s Azure-only control. OpenAI can now sell across all clouds, a change that helped lift Amazon. Yet the deeper update: Microsoft gives up revenue payments under the redesign while still retaining long-term access to OpenAI models through 2030—shifting from control to scale.
Google Cloud is building an AI-ready data centre campus in Vishakhapatnam with a planned 5-gigawatt capacity. The $15 billion investment is the biggest Google has made in India and is expected to be completed over five years. Once operational, the facility will join Google’s global network and significantly boost data transfer capabilities.
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