Microsoft has entered into several Corporate Power Purchase Agreements
The company will be ponying up a few billion to bring the facility back from the dead.
Generative AI could drive rural data center and broadband growth, according to a new report from CoBank Knowledge Exchange. Data centers traditionally have been built in urban areas, where there is plenty of power and broadband connectivity. But according to
Microsoft is reportedly requesting a number of current team members at ZeniMax to take voluntary severance deals, following Tuesday's cuts of three game development studios in that division.
In 2023, the region's data center deals hit a record high of $3.45 billion
Will create 2,000 jobs. And Microsoft will establish AI Institute at UWM.
In a strategic move to bolster its AI capabilities, Microsoft has announced plans to construct a new AI data center in Racine, Wisconsin, with an investment of $3.3 billion. The project has political overtones, as Joe Biden's White House attempts to attack Trump's economic policies.
Coming on the heels of a Wall Street Journal report that Apple was developing its own chips geared toward powering AI-focused data centers, today Mark Gurman at Bloomberg effectively confirmed the report while adding new details of his own. more
The White House said the investment will result in 2,300 union construction jobs and around 2,000 permanent jobs over time.
Microsoft has plans to spend $3.3 billion to launch a new AI data center in Wisconsin, on land that was first bought by Foxconn for a failed LCD factory. President Joe Biden will help with the reveal.
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Uri Simonsohn, a behavioral scientist who coauthors the Data Colada blog, urges reporters to ask researchers about preregistration and expose opportunities for fraud.