Microsoft Corp. said its cloud-computing business will continue to grow slowly in the current quarter as the company struggles to build enough data centers to handle demand for its artificial intelligence products.

Revenue in Microsoft's 'Intelligent Cloud' segment was $25.5 billion for the quarter, an increase of 19 percent year-over-year (YoY). Within that, server products and cloud services revenue increased by 21 percent (Azure) and other cloud services grew 31 percent.

US data centers will need 55 gigawatts of new power capacity within the next five years, according to a report released this week by Bloom Energy. The report, based on a survey of 100 data center leaders, also shows that 30% of all sites will be using onsite power by 2030.