Microsoft revealed Thursday that the Artificial Intelligence Data Center (IA), which is close to completing in Wisconsin, the central-west of the United States, will be the “most powerful in the world” and announced a new investment of 4,000 million dollars to expand it.
The Fairwater Center, located in Mount pleasant (Wisconsin) and will open at the beginning of 2026, will store “hundreds of thousands” of NVIDIA graphic processors (GPU) to train AI models, with a power ten times greater than the best current supercomputer, indicates a statement.
His CEO, Satya Nadella, in X, explained that the center has an “integrated system” that will facilitate the “exponential scale” computing, their GPU will cool through a closed cycle of liquids that “requires zero water” and that all the energy that consumes will be “equal to” with renewable sources.
“And that is not all. Today we commit ourselves to an additional 4,000 million that we will spend in the next three years to build our second data center of similar and scale,” adds the note in the Microsoft blog, signed by its president, Brad Smith.
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Nadella added that Microsoft is building other centers “identical to Fairwater” in the United States, which add to new ones outside the country and the infrastructures of AI already in operation in a hundred active centers throughout the world.
The Fairwater Center, in which Microsoft has invested about $ 3,300, is in the same land where President Donald Trump promised in 2018 that the Multinational Taiwanese Foxconn would build a factory valued at 10,000 million dollars, something that never materialized.
Smith, who gave a talk this Thursday about Microsoft’s plans in Mount pleasant, a town where he grew up, said the second center will be operational in 2027 or later.
With EFE information.
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