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Microsoft
The company behind Copilot, and a major investor in and distributor of OpenAI's models. Microsoft has struck long-term power deals — including the restart of Three Mile Island — and water-free data-center designs to support its AI buildout.
5 published XAi stories on Microsoft; the most recent is dated October 1, 2026.
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- West Texas is becoming the AI economy's power plantA wave of hyperscale AI data centers and dedicated private power plants is landing from Abilene through the Permian to the Panhandle — Stargate Abilene is already live, and Aligned's 540 MW Project Caprock is rising just outside Abernathy. But only about 1–2% of the gigawatts requested from ERCOT are actually operating, and the state has now paused approval of new projects pending a statewide audit.
- Microsoft introduces a new Copilot built around Home, Code and AutopilotMicrosoft says it is reimagining Copilot to connect the tools people already use with the next generation of AI capabilities for building, customizing and scaling AI. The new version is organized around three parts: Home, Code and Autopilot.
- ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Went Down at Once. No Shared Explanation Yet.A simultaneous outage hit the three biggest AI chatbots Thursday. As of this story's last edit, the cause was still unconfirmed. What it exposes is not.
- Data centers are learning to run without waterMicrosoft has announced designs that use essentially zero water for cooling, and Oracle's upcoming Texas AI sites plan closed-loop systems.
- They're restarting nuclear plants to feed AIThree Mile Island is being brought back online under a 20-year deal to power Microsoft's AI. The companies building AI are starving for electricity and buying it decades ahead.