In its 2025 business year, which ends in June, it intends to invest a significant amount, more than 80 billion dollars, in systems supporting artificial intelligence, so primarily in the construction of new data centers or the development of existing ones, Microsoft – announced the company on Friday.
Brad Smith, the president of the company, who is almost the second person at Microsoft after Satya Nadella, praised the technological superiority of “American AI” in his blog post, while also referring to the competition with the Chinese.
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Smith also stated in the blog post about Microsoft’s investment plan that the company will make more than half of the investments supporting artificial intelligence in the United States, at the same time drawing attention to the company’s international investment program announced last year, which includes data centers worth $35 billion within three years. – developments in a total of 14 countries.
In the first business quarter alone, Microsoft made investments worth about $20 billion, of which $14.9 billion was spent on building new data centers or expanding existing ones, as well as on the purchase of data center hardware, presumably primarily Nvidia’s target hardware.
In the meantime, the area is gradually generating more and more money for the Redmond company, in the first quarter at least the sales revenue from Azure and other cloud services increased by 33%, and an increase of 12 percentage points was specifically linked to the rise of Ai-based services.
In the blog post, Microsoft’s president repeatedly mentioned the results achieved during the first term of the Trump administration and their effects, and encouraged the president-elect to take additional measures to protect the country’s positions in the AI competition in his second term.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
