{"id":26178,"date":"2025-01-04T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=26178"},"modified":"2025-01-04T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:34:13","slug":"%e5%be%ae%e8%bd%af%e8%ae%a1%e5%88%92%e6%9c%ac%e8%b4%a2%e5%b9%b4%e7%a0%b8%e4%b8%8b-800-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%ef%bc%8c%e5%bb%ba%e8%ae%be%e7%ac%a6%e5%90%88-ai-%e5%b7%a5%e4%bd%9c%e9%9c%80%e6%b1%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/26178.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft plans to drop $80 billion this fiscal year to build data centers that meet the needs of AI jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 4 - Friday, local time.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%be%ae%e8%bd%af\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Microsoft]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Microsoft<\/a>In a blog post, the company announced an ambitious plan to invest $80 billion in fiscal year 2025 (note: currently about RMB 585,749 million) in a program that will enable it to<strong>support<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [artificial intelligence]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a>operating requirements<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%95%b0%e6%8d%ae%e4%b8%ad%e5%bf%83\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [data center]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Data Center<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26179\" title=\"0eb85f83j00spjizj00k2d000mq00n0p\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0eb85f83j00spjizj00k2d000mq00n0p.jpg\" alt=\"0eb85f83j00spjizj00k2d000mq00n0p\" width=\"818\" height=\"828\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than half of this spending is expected to be invested in the U.S. market by June 2025, the fiscal year 2025 cutoff period, Microsoft's vice chairman and president, Brad Smith, revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said, \"The U.S. is now leading the global AI race, thanks to private capital investment and technological innovation from a wide variety of U.S. companies, both startups and established companies, driving progress. At Microsoft, we are experiencing this change firsthand, particularly through our work with OpenAI and our connections with startups like Anthropic and xAI, while building on our own AI software platforms and applications.\"<\/p>\n<p>Several tech giants are now investing heavily in NVIDIA's graphics processing units to train and run AI models.2022 The rapid popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT assistant at the end of the year has pushed companies to develop their own generative AI technologies. Microsoft has invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, providing it with cloud infrastructure and integrating AI models into its core products such as Windows and Teams.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft reported that in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, the company's capital expenditures and leased assets in the<strong>Investment of $20 billion<\/strong>(currently approximately RMB 146,437 million), of which\u00a0<strong>14.9 billion dollars<\/strong>(currently about 109,096 million yuan) for real estate and equipment. Microsoft's CFO, Amy Hood, said she expects capex to continue to increase in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also warned the incoming Trump administration to handle regulation of AI with care. He said, \"The current U.S. policy focus should be on ensuring that private companies are able to<strong>Continued development in an enabling environment<\/strong>. &quot;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- On Friday, local time, Microsoft announced in a blog post an ambitious plan to invest $80 billion (note: currently about 585,749 million yuan) in fiscal 2025 to build data centers capable of supporting the computing needs of artificial intelligence. More than half of that spending is expected to go to the U.S. market by June 2025, the end of the 2025 fiscal year, according to Brad Smith, Microsoft's vice chairman and president. The U.S. is now leading the global AI race, thanks to private capital investment and technological innovation from a wide range of U.S. companies, both startups and established companies, driving progress,\" Smith said. At Microsoft, we've experienced this change firsthand, t<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[204,280,2231],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-26178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-204","tag-280","tag-2231"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26178"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=26178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}