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Key Developments

• Microsoft secures a landmark 20-year agreement to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, locking in 835 megawatts of carbon-free energy—a pivotal move that establishes the company as a strategic player in AI-driven energy sovereignty and directly addresses power constraints for its expanding data center footprint.
• Microsoft executes a $9.7 billion, five-year AI cloud deal with IREN, validating its external infrastructure strategy and accelerating AI scalability amid rising data center construction delays—a transformative partnership that reinforces Azure’s dominance in enterprise AI infrastructure.
• Microsoft initiates a major workforce restructuring, cutting nearly 20% of the Xbox division (4,800 employees) and launching a $900 million voluntary retirement program—signaling a decisive strategic pivot toward AI and cloud efficiency, at the cost of consumer-facing innovation momentum.
• Microsoft expands its AI infrastructure with a large-scale deployment of AMD’s Helios rack platform (MI455X GPUs, EPYC Venice CPUs, ROCm software) on Azure, marking a bold break from Nvidia’s dominance and a critical shift toward supply chain diversification and cost optimization in AI hardware.
• Microsoft is reportedly evaluating integration of low-cost Chinese AI models like DeepSeek’s V4 Flash into Copilot Cowork, a move that could disrupt U.S.-centric AI pricing models and position Microsoft as a global cost leader—but also raises geopolitical and intellectual property concerns.

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