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More than half of this spending expected by June 2025 will be in the United States, Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a blog post on Friday. Recent advances in AI are due to “massive infrastructure investments that serve as a critical foundation for AI innovation and deployment,” Smith writes.
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Cloud infrastructure providers such as Microsoft and Amazon.com Inc. they were racing to increase computing capacity by building new data centers. In the last fiscal year ending June 2024, Microsoft spent more than US $50 billion in capital expenditures, most of which related to the construction of a server farm fueled by the demand for artificial intelligence services.
Smith also warned the incoming Donald Trump administration against “difficult regulations” related to AI. “A top priority in US public policy should be ensuring that America’s private sector can continue to thrive with the wind behind it,” Smith wrote.
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The country needs “an effective export control policy that balances the strong security of AI components in trusted data centers with the ability of US companies to grow rapidly and provide a reliable source of supply to many of America’s allies and friends,” Smith said. he wrote.
Bloomberg.com
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