Microsoft to Invest $80 Billion in AI-Focused Data Centers Amid ‘Golden Opportunity'

Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion to build data centers in fiscal 2025, aiming to use them to power the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI).The company is doing so amid a “golden opportunity for American AI,” Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith wrote in a Friday (Jan. 3) blog post.More than half of this investment in AI infrastructure will be deployed in the United States, according to the post.“The massive datacenters that make all this possible are being built by construction ...