Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 to build data centers that can handle artificial intelligence technology work.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said that more than half of the expected AI infrastructure spending will be invested in the United States.
The US is leading the global AI race thanks to private capital investment and innovation by a wide range of technology companies of all sizes, from dynamic startups to strategic enterprises.
He added that Microsoft sees this potential through partnerships with OpenAI, rising firms such as Anthropic and xAI, and their own AI-enabled software platforms.
However, several big tech companies have chosen to invest billions of USD in Nvidia, which produces graphics processing units that run AI models.
The rapid progress is due to the high traction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which launched in late 2022 and is now the main AI race for other tech companies.
Having invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, Microsoft provides cloud infrastructure to startups by incorporating its models into Windows, Teams and other products.
Smith also added that the injection channel in the United States is not just focused on competition alone but that he wants to see the US as a leading country promoting AI compared to other developed countries, especially China.
