Microsoft Adds 24 Data Centres as AI Spending Climbs
Microsoft added 24 data centres in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, taking its global total past 500. The company spent $45.2 billion on capital expenditure in that quarter. It also said GPU deployment times fell 20% and Copilot workload throughput rose over 50%.
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Context: Data centres are the large computing buildings that run cloud services and AI tools, and GPUs are the chips used to train and run them. Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant, so faster infrastructure affects how quickly its AI features can be offered.
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