Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is set to construct what CEO Satya Nadella calls the world’s most powerful AI datacenter in southeastern Wisconsin, the executive announced Thursday.
The facility, dubbed Fairwater, will house “a seamless cluster of hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200s” linked by fiber optic cabling that, in total length, could circle the Earth 4.5 times, Nadella noted in a post on X.
According to Nadella, Fairwater will deliver 10 times the performance of today’s fastest supercomputer, enabling AI training and inference workloads at an unprecedented scale.
The datacenter will use a liquid-cooled closed-loop system to cool GPUs, which requires no water for ongoing operations. Microsoft plans to offset all energy usage with renewable sources.
Nadella stressed that Fairwater is just one of several similar facilities being built across Microsoft’s network of more than 70 regions worldwide. Multiple identical Fairwater datacenters are already under construction in other U.S. locations, complementing AI infrastructure deployed in over 100 datacenters globally.
Highlighting the company’s rapid expansion of computing power, Nadella pointed out that Microsoft added over 2 gigawatts of new capacity last year – roughly the output of 2 nuclear power plants.
He also emphasized the broader impact of the project, noting it will generate jobs and expand opportunities while collaborating with local communities to ensure sustainable development.
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