Despite a pledge made in January to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in FY 2025, a new report indicates Microsoft is already dropping some of its current data center leases.

Some of Europe's most popular AI-linked stocks fell for a second day on Tuesday, after an analyst note late last week that flagged a possible slowdown by Microsoft on data centre leasing knocked sentiment ahead of make-or-break results from Nvidia .

Microsoft Corp. has canceled some leases for US data center capacity, according to TD Cowen, raising broader concerns over whether it’s securing more AI computing capacity than it needs in the long term.