Microsoft has 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”>unveiled Fairwater, its largest and most advanced data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI data center to date, located in Wisconsin.
Fairwater is the first of several identical datacenters under development across the U.S., as well as new projects in data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/features/the-port-town-in-norway-emerging-as-an-ai-hub/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/features/the-port-town-in-norway-emerging-as-an-ai-hub/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Norway and the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/09/16/microsoft-30-billion-uk-ai-future/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/09/16/microsoft-30-billion-uk-ai-future/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>UK.
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These sites represent tens of billions of dollars in investment and hundreds of thousands of GPUs. Microsoft says the aim is to link them together into a single, global Azure AI data center, effectively creating a distributed AI supercomputer.
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