Microsoft confirms AI pullback as tariffs compound pressure

Dive Brief:

• Microsoft is “slowing or pausing” some of its artificial intelligence data center projects, a top executive said in a recent blog post, confirming earlier news reports on the pullback.
• Noelle Walsh, Microsoft president of cloud operations and innovation, said she decided to address the issue amid “heightened interest in the adjustments we are making to some early-stage datacenter infrastructure projects.”
• “While we…