Microsoft brings data center hype back to earth but the boom lives on

A TD Cowen analyst said that Microsoft had canceled plans for new data center developments.The news suggested that the staggering forecasts for data center growth could be overblown.Experts say the industry's growth will still be enormous but is now undergoing a reality check.Microsoft recently appeared to scale back its data center development pipeline, which would be an extraordinary step back after a period of furious growth by the tech giant. But did it really? The concerns about whether air was coming ...