Software Microsoft plans to spend 80 billion dollars on AI data centers
Microsoft plans to invest around 80 billion dollars in the expansion of data centers for artificial intelligence in the current financial year alone. More than half of this will be invested in the USA, the software giant emphasized in a blog post.
03.01.2025, 22:05
SDA
Microsoft's current financial year runs until the end of June. The additional computing power will be used to train AI models and introduce functions based on artificial intelligence around the world, it said.
Microsoft has become a pioneer in the use of AI software through a multi-billion dollar pact with ChatGPT developer OpenAI and is trying to integrate it into its entire product range.
Microsoft is already making provisions with atomic energy
AI software is trained with huge amounts of all kinds of data - and this requires enormous computer resources. The already huge data centers for this consume a lot of energy.
Back in the autumn, it was announced that a reactor at the decommissioned US nuclear power plant Three Mile Island would be restarted to supply electricity for Microsoft's data centers. The company has agreed to purchase the energy produced for 20 years. This will be the first time that a decommissioned nuclear power plant in the USA has been reconnected to the grid.
