Google reportedly offered CISPE €14 million in cash and €455 million in software licenses to maintain its complaint with the EU, but ultimately CISPE decided to settle with Microsoft.
The expansion will be aided by technology from US-based electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, according to reports from Chinese news outlets.
The data centers in Mumbai and Sydney are expected to close in July and September respectively, a notice from the company read.
The layoffs impacted employees working in Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering teams.
The strategy to lower prices may not only help Alibaba undercut competition from larger hyperscalers in emerging markets but also have a more positive effect on its image as a Chinese provider, experts say.
Azure Compute Fleet, a new service designed to simplify Azure provisioning, is also among the cloud infrastructure updates unveiled at Microsoft's Build 2024 event in Seattle.
Trillium, the sixth iteration of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), is nearly five times more efficient than its predecessor, TPUv5, in peak compute performance and memory bandwidth, Google said.
The investment spread over the next four years will see the company update its infrastructure to support AI workloads and upskill 840,000 people in AI.
Apart from expanding its partnership on Azure’s AI and other cloud services, the investment will see Microsoft President Brad Smith join the board of G42.
Infrastructure enhancements targeting AI workloads include updates to compute hardware, new Nvidia GPU offerings, and storage optimization.
