Jan. 4 - Friday, local time.MicrosoftIn 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 tosupportAIoperating requirementsData Center.
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.
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."
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.
Microsoft reported that in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, the company's capital expenditures and leased assets in theInvestment of $20 billion(currently approximately RMB 146,437 million), of which 14.9 billion dollars(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.
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 toContinued development in an enabling environment. "