Microsoft to spend $80 billion in FY’25 on data center AI

Microsoft has invested $80 billion in fiscal 2025 to build a data center designed to run artificial intelligence, according to the company. blog post.

In particular, the tech giant plans to create an AI-powered data center “to train AI models and use AI and cloud applications around the world.” Of that $80 billion segment, more than half will be spent in the United States, according to Microsoft Vice-Chair and President Brad Smith. The tech giant’s 2025 fiscal year ends in June.

“Looking to the future, it’s clear that artificial intelligence is poised to become a global revolution. AI promises to drive innovation and boost productivity in every sector of the economy,” Smith wrote. “The United States is poised to be at the forefront of this new technology, especially if it continues to leverage its influence and cooperate effectively around the world.”

Microsoft and OpenAI were they say they are talking in April regarding the construction of a data center that will house an AI supercomputer called Stargate. The building is said to have cost more than $100 billion to build. Especially, after a year, Microsoft He called it a “competitor” for the first time in an SEC file.

AI has an insatiable thirst electricity is expected to rise in the coming years, which may lead to less electricity for data centers.