This investment surpasses Wall Street expectations of $23.75 billion and underscores Microsoft’s aggressive push to lead the global race in AI infrastructure. The company’s bold bet signals its determination to outpace competitors like Google and Meta, as industry-wide capital spending is expected to climb to $330 billion in 2025.

“I feel very good that the spend we’re making is correlated to basically contracted, on-the-books business that we need to deliver,” said Amy Hood, Microsoft’s Chief Financial Officer, during the company’s fiscal Q4 earnings call.

The surge in capital expenditure reflects growing enterprise adoption of generative AI tools and services, as Microsoft continues to integrate AI across its cloud offerings and productivity platforms. Analysts view the move as strategic, positioning Microsoft to meet long-term demand and secure its leadership in the evolving AI cloud landscape.

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The new initiative, under the AWS ‘Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance’, will deliver practical training in cloud infrastructure, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity, all at zero cost to learners in universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.

Speaking at the launch, Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, said the partnership aligns with the Federal Government’s plan to build a pipeline of three million technical talents (3MTT) by 2027.

“This collaboration with AWS is critical for preparing our young people for the jobs of the future. It will help us close the digital skills gap and position Nigeria as a leading hub for tech talent in Africa,” Tijani said.

The programme is already running in 43 federal institutions and will soon expand to private and state-owned schools through nominated campus coordinators. Students will have access to hands-on labs, industry-recognised certifications, and real-world projects that bridge the gap between classroom knowledge and workplace demands.

Uwem Ukpong, Vice President of Global Services at AWS, highlighted that the training is part of AWS’s global commitment to equip 29 million people worldwide with cloud skills by 2025.

Stakeholders say the collaboration will strengthen Nigeria’s capacity to produce highly skilled graduates who can thrive in AI, big data, cloud services, and related emerging sectors. It also builds local opportunities that could help curb the brain drain affecting the country’s digital workforce.

The training initiative complements other government-led programmes, including the 3MTT scheme and the National AI Strategy, aimed at transforming Nigeria into an innovation-driven, knowledge-based economy.

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Growing concerns among European companies and governments about data being transferred abroad, especially to the U.S,. have pressured American tech firms like Microsoft to introduce new safeguards.

In April, Microsoft outlined measures to safeguard user data as it expands its cloud and AI infrastructure across Europe, committing to comply with European laws aimed at curbing the influence of major tech firms.

On Monday, the company added that any remote access by Microsoft engineers to systems handling European data would require real-time approval and oversight by personnel based in Europe.

Microsoft stated that its sovereign private cloud is currently in preview and will be fully available later this year.

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TECH DIGEST- Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, and now the software giant wants to do the same for consumers. In an internal presentation, Microsoft discusses building on Windows 365 to enable a full Windows operating system streamed from the cloud to any device.

Moving Windows 11 increasingly to the cloud is identified as a long-term opportunity in Microsoft’s “Modern Life” consumer space. This would allow Microsoft to use the power of the cloud to provide improved AI-powered services and full roaming of people’s digital experience.

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Windows 365 is a service that streams a full version of Windows to devices. So far, it’s been limited to just commercial customers, but Microsoft has been deeply integrating it into Windows 11 already. A future update will include Windows 365 Boot, which will enable Windows 11 devices to log directly in to a Cloud PC instance at boot instead of the local version of Windows.

The idea of moving Windows fully to the cloud for consumers is also presented alongside Microsoft’s need to invest in custom silicon partnerships. Microsoft has been doing some of this for its ARM-powered Surface Pro X devices. Bloomberg also reported in late 2020 that Microsoft was looking at designing its own ARM-based processors for servers and maybe even Surface devices.

This is an interesting development, as it could have a significant impact on the way we use computers in the future. If Microsoft is successful in moving Windows to the cloud, it could mean that we no longer need to worry about the hardware in our devices, as everything would be handled by the cloud.

This would make it possible to use any device to access our Windows applications and data, regardless of its specifications. It is still unclear when Microsoft plans to roll out this new feature to consumers

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TECHDIGEST– Researchers at UMass Amherst have developed a special material that can harvest electricity from humidity in the air, using tiny holes called nanopores.

A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) were able to “harvest” electricity from the air using a special material that they developed.

With the study, whose results are published in the journal Advanced Materials, the researchers have proven that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air, according to UMass.

The trick is that the material will need to have “nanopores” which have a diameter of less than 100 nanometres in diameter.
“The air contains an enormous amount of electricity.

Think of a cloud, which is nothing more than a mass of water droplets. Each of those droplets contains a charge, and when conditions are right, the cloud can produce a lightning bolt—but we don’t know how to reliably capture electricity from lightning,” said Jun Yao, corresponding author of the research article, in a press statement.

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Many people have asked me this question as I evangelize across Africa trying to bring awareness on the benefits of Cloud Computing to an emerging African economy of $2.5 trillion.

The question I most often get is this: How can cloud computing boost the African economy and a country’s GDP.

Here is to this intriguing question:
Cloud Computing in easy terms is the storing and accessing of data and other programs over the internet instead of storing these in a computer’s hard drive.

This means that the terms “Cloud Computing” are used in a metaphoric way to describe the fact that data is stored on the internet which is out there in the skies or cloud. It reduces digital-divide, giving more African countries access to technological resources.

Studies from companies have shown that cloud computing enhances organization activities. For instance, 47% of respondents say they use cloud computing for mobility/remote working, 27% utilise it to get access to technical expertise and 38% believes cloud computing reduces operating costs. However, the benefits in cloud computing are endless as its effectiveness is based on the proficiency of users. This is the gap Primus Cloud Solution is filling.

According to AWS (Amazon Web Services), “Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with a pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of buying, owning and maintaining Physical data centres and servers, you can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like AWS”

From the above definition, we note a few very interesting facts:

Ondelivery of IT resources: This means that IT resources are made available to the user as he needs them. If the user needs just 20GB of storage, he requests just for 20GB. He doesn’t need to buy and keep idle resources waiting to use in the future.

In this case emerging African small size businesses can demand the resources they need to test their concepts, once done, they tear them down without incurring huge sums of money. If their business ideas are successful, they can easily scale up resources according to what their business needs dictate.

Pay-as-you-go Pricing: This is a payment model which allows you to easily adapt to changing business needs without overcommitting budgets and improving your responsiveness to changes. With this model, you can adapt your business depending on need and not on forecasts, reducing the risk of overprovisioning or missing capacity.

This is intimately related to the first point discussed above. This will save idle infrastructure cost, and permit businesses to rather scale their businesses or reduce losses in a case where users could have missed out on correct capacity. This is a simple but very effective model that will allow businesses in Africa, optimize on their infrastructure spending and hence growing their businesses effectively.

Owning and Maintaining physical Servers in Data Centers: The last time I checked at the pricing models for physical servers I was shocked. Many small-sized businesses in Africa will find it hard spending large sums upfront for servers and or data centre costs.

Cloud computing opens them up to being able to create virtual servers with flexible capacity that suits their needs. They pay for just what they use and no need for upfront infrastructure cost. This is a great opportunity as those who could not raise large infrastructure costs can now afford to bring their business ideas to light. All they need is a web browser, an email account and their business ideas can be tested even through the free tier opportunities provided by AWS, Azure, Google and many other cloud providers.

In effect, the time is now, and African businesses need to begin leveraging the advantages Cloud Computing brings to the table. Cloud Computing can essentially boost African’s economy as well as up the GDP of African countries through sustainable digital transformation and innovation.

When we talk of cloud computing we immediately think of the following:

1. Reduced IT costs. Moving to cloud computing may reduce the cost of managing and maintaining your IT systems. A lot of the work that was manually done by system administrators could be managed by these cloud platforms depending on the migration model chosen.

A quick look at the diagram below shows the various infrastructure management models:

1.1. On-premise model where everything is manually handled by the IT admins. There is a lot of manual intervention here as the OS, networking, storage, servers, middleware, runtime, data and applications are all managed by the system admins.

1.2. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a form of cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. This model is based on a pay-as-you-go basis. IaaS enables end-users to scale and shrink resources on an as-needed basis, reducing the need for high, up-front capital expenditures or unnecessary “owned” infrastructure, especially in the case of workloads that are very dynamic.

How will this help in boosting the African economy and GDP of countries? Well, more businesses mean more income and improved GDP.

1.3. Platform as a service (PaaS) In this model, developers essentially rent everything they need to build an application, relying on a cloud provider for development tools, infrastructure and operating systems. This is one of the three service models in Cloud computing.

1.4. Software as a Service (SaaS) allows users to connect to and use cloud-based apps over the Internet. Common examples are services like email, calendaring, and office tools such as Microsoft Office 365. SaaS provides a complete software solution that you purchase on a pay-as-you-go basis from a cloud service provider.
These are the four models represented in the diagram below.

2. Scalability: Once you have a well-architected infrastructure in the cloud, you can easily scale up or scale down depending on your business needs. This flexibility will positively bring value to your business as you can scale up when traffic increases or scale down when traffic reduces.

3. Business continuity: An emerging viable tool for disaster recovery is the cloud. Because cloud computing relies heavily on hardware-independent virtualization technology, it enables enterprises to quickly back up data, applications, and even operating systems to the cloud.

4. Collaboration efficiency: Cloud collaboration tools, on the other hand, increase employee efficiency and productivity. It empowers employees to more effectively and freely interact with each other, enhancing team communication.

These applications also improve teamwork and innovation, as ideas are exchanged more easily.

5. Access to automatic updates: With Cloud computing, most of the services offered are automatically updated and you do not need any manual intervention.

All these benefits will help in digital transformation, innovation and the implementation of cutting-edge technologies that add a lot of value to businesses as they grow towards maturity. Cloud is the foundation for this new agile business Africa. It’s the platform for enabling agile application development.

Cloud-based infrastructure is key to delivering flexible, on-demand access to the resources underpinning these new digital business offerings. It allows organizations to scale infrastructure as needed to support changing business priorities while reducing the risks of wasted IT resources that inhibited past investments in new digital services.

It is time we take the leap of faith and enhance this transformation that we really need for an emerging Africa. With the advent of the Internet, then the mobile explosion, and, now, the big data analytics revolution, companies must dedicate more IT resources and staff to the creation and continual development of systems of engagement, insight, and action that improve the customer experience rather than focus on infrastructure management.

This means that the cloud adoption framework is what is currently needed for business across Africa. They must also make sure that existing applications and these new digital services are consistently managed in terms of security, reliability, and scalability and these are perfectly achieved through the robust systems provided by the various cloud providers.

We realize that there are some disadvantages presented by adopting cloud computing. We, however, set out in this article to present the value it can bring to businesses across Africa. We shall in another article present some disadvantages that come with cloud computing and how these could be handled to get a seamless experience in the cloud.

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