Microsoft will invest $80B in AI data centers in fiscal 2025
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JANUARY 6, 2025
Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.
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CIO
JANUARY 6, 2025
Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.
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in 2025, one of the largest percentage increases in this century, and it’s only partially driven by AI. Gartner’s new 2025 IT spending projection , of $5.75 growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. trillion, Gartner projects.
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