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Translating Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Translating Nadella’s jargon to understand his strategy for meeting intense demand for AI computing.

1/29/26 1:43PM

On yesterday’s second-quarter earnings call, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out the company’s strategy for growing its AI infrastructure to meet the intense demand it’s seeing while still keeping costs under control. But sometimes tech CEOs can be a little too jargony, so we helped explain some of his lingo in plain English.

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