Why Microsoft is asking Google and Amazon, two of its biggest Cloud rivals, for ‘help’ despite spending $190 billion on AI

Microsoft sells computing capacity to the world. This year, it is buying some. The company is spending a record $190 billion to build AI infrastructure, and it is still short enough on servers that it has started evaluating Amazon and Google—its two biggest cloud rivals—as suppliers.

According to a Business Insider report, the company is now evaluating Amazon and Google as sources of additional cloud capacity, with one person familiar with the discussions putting it plainly: “We are shopping for capacity everywhere.”