Microsoft wants to invest around $80 billion in the expansion of data centers for artificial intelligence in the current fiscal year alone.
More than half is invested in the USA, the software giant emphasized in a blog entry. Microsoft’s current fiscal 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 became 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 nuclear energy
AI software is trained using huge amounts of all kinds of data – and that requires enormous computer resources. The already huge data centers for this use a lot of energy.
It was already announced in the fall that a reactor at the decommissioned US nuclear power plant Three Mile Island would be restarted to supply electricity for Microsoft data centers. The company agreed to purchase the energy produced for 20 years. It will be the first time that a decommissioned nuclear power plant in the United States has been brought back online.
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