UK telecoms company Vodafone is joining up with US tech giant Microsoft in a 10-year partnership to provide generative artificial intelligence (AI), digital, enterprise, and cloud services to more than 300 million businesses and consumers in Europe and Africa. The British firm plans to invest $1.5 billion (€1.4 billion) in customer-centric AI using Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI and Copilot technologies. It has also revealed plans to substitute physical data centres with more cost-effective and scalable Azure cloud services. As part of the arrangement, Microsoft will become an equity investor in Vod…