Company's overall second-quarter sales and profit exceeded analysts’ projections

Full-year earnings indicate cloud and AI have yet to offset acquisition costs and other expenses

Data centers are a relatively new asset class whose presence is growing on investor radar screens

After two years of austerity, the REIT is planning to spend up to $1B on data center construction this year

The electronic coin that trades and is regulated like oil and gold surged 79 percent since the start of 2016 to $778, its highest level since early 2014.

The data center REIT sector has begun to rally for the first time since the November election, once again allowing good news to provide a tailwind for share prices.

Microsoft is betting big on artificial intelligence as a key component for Azure and its Cortana voice-enabled assistant, as well as for new products and research areas such as fighting cancer.

Chipmakers dropped the most in five months after a report that Apple Inc. is reducing orders for iPhone 7 parts reignited a post U.S.-election selloff in technology stocks.

The kind of artificial intelligence developed by Google’s DeepMind, or typing prediction from Microsoft-acquired SwiftKey are drawing an increasing share of European venture funding.

A group of data center experts from commercial brokerage firms share post-election forecasts and market updates.