{"id":1024998,"date":"2026-07-30T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024998"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:35:18","slug":"why-microsoft-is-asking-google-and-amazon-two-of-its-biggest-cloud-rivals-for-help-despite-spending-190-billion-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/why-microsoft-is-asking-google-and-amazon-two-of-its-biggest-cloud-rivals-for-help-despite-spending-190-billion-on-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Microsoft is asking Google and Amazon, two of its biggest Cloud rivals, for &#8216;help&#8217; despite spending $190 billion on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014its two biggest cloud rivals\u2014as suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>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: &#8220;We are shopping for capacity everywhere.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014its two biggest cloud rivals\u2014as 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: &#8220;We are shopping for capacity everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024999,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024998\/revisions\/1024999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}