Microsoft to spend $4 billion on second Wisconsin data center

Group 1 - Microsoft will invest $4 billion to establish a second data center in Wisconsin, following an initial investment of $3.3 billion for the first data center, which is expected to be operational by early 2026 [1] - The first Wisconsin data center will utilize hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips designed for artificial intelligence model processing, as stated by Microsoft's president and vice chair [1] - The demand for cloud infrastructure is increasing as companies seek to run AI models, with over 700 million users of OpenAI's ChatGPT relying on Microsoft's Azure cloud [2] Group 2 - Major software providers, including Adobe and Salesforce, are enhancing their offerings with AI features to attract customers [2] - Microsoft aims to balance its fossil fuel energy consumption by contributing an equivalent amount of carbon-free energy to the grid [2]