Data Centre Magazine June 2026, Issue 46 | Page 81

Complementary technologies, shared infrastructure goals Frank Rey, Partner and General Manager of Azure Hyperscale Networking at Microsoft, outlines how the two technologies operate in concert across different parts of the infrastructure.
“ With MicroLED, you have the pure efficiency of LED over a laser,” he says.“ That has a pure bottom-line impact to power usage at any given data centre.
“ And then Hollow Core allows us to extend that area served by one data centre and an Azure region. And outside of an Azure region, if you can go a much greater distance before you need to do any signal amplification, that means less buildings, less power, less generators, less energy.” datacentremagazine. com 81