data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft is planning to bring the “world’s most powerful” AI datacenter online in early 2026, the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>company announced today. The Pleasantville, Wisconsin-based datacenter, dubbed Fairwater, is. meant specifically for training AI models as well as running large-scale models. The datacenter will be housed on 315 acres of land, with 1.2 million square feet in three buildings to house “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GB200 and GB300 GPUs.

data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft is planning to bring the “world’s most powerful” AI datacenter online in early 2026, the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>company announced today. The Pleasantville, Wisconsin-based datacenter, dubbed Fairwater, is. meant specifically for training AI models as well as running large-scale models. The datacenter will be housed on 315 acres of land, with 1.2 million square feet in three buildings to house “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GB200 and GB300 GPUs.