The group is clearly withdrawing new data centers employed by somewhat microsoft or their expansion. Projects around the world are affected. Bloomberg Financial Service report, citing people familiar with cases. In some cases, it is likely to be caused by local conditions and contractual partners, but since data centers are affected in different continents at many different places, there is a change of strategy.
It was only earlier this year that Microsoft explained to put $ 80 billion in AI data centers this year. At this point, a change of government in the United States was already indicated, so that a large part of the budget flows into plants in the United States. But even at these places, the group is not clearly in a hurry. Because Bloomberg according to Microsoft has recently discussed their expansion or expansion in Indonesia, Australia, Great Britain and America in Illinois, North Dakota and Visconsin in Indonesia, Australia, Great Britain either halted or delayed either.
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Along with many construction projects, there may be problems with bottlenecks in the construction materials with electric relations or supply that can be removed after a certain time. However, some investors explain the development as a sign that the expected demand for AI services no longer justifies Microsoft’s comprehensive data center schemes.
At the request, Microsoft confirmed changes in plans for data centers, but did not want to comment on individual projects. The group says, “We are planning the capacity of our data center to ensure that we have sufficient infrastructure at the right locations.” “Since AI’s demand continues to increase and our presence has been further expanded in data centers, the changes we make show the flexibility of our strategy.”
Negotiations stopped at new places
Microsoft was recently withdrawn by negotiations to rent rented areas between London and Cambridge in Great Britain, although the cloud server could be placed with NVidia’s latest AI chips. At the same time, Microsoft broke the conversation in the United States for data centers near Chicago in the US state of Illinois, as it has been said.
In addition, the Start-Up Korwen, which is closely connected to the Microsoft, is entitled to its money with cloud data centers for training and execution (estimates) from the AI ​​model, which will not book any of the additional capabilities already introduced. Coreweave did not want to comment on the scope of projects, but explained that the capacity was sold elsewhere.
Construction slowed down
In other cases, Microsoft is making fun of the completion of new data centers. For example, the group has suspended work in parts of a new data center campus near Jakarta in Indonesia. The planned expansion of a place in Mount Pluscent in the US state of Wisconsin was also stopped. So far, the group has spent $ 262 million for construction work.
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Microsoft agreed with contradictory and $ 3.3 billion in Wisconsin. Next year’s data centers should be kept in operation and preparation work for expansion must have started. Microsoft in Indonesia did not want to comment on breaking the construction work in Jakarta, but the second quarter of this year should have cloud infrastructure available as per the plan.
Some observers suspect data centers for AI purposes as Deepsek has mixed the AI ​​view. Because larger voice models from China are said to be particularly efficient, so that artificial intelligence is also possible with low computing capabilities. It is also expected that the Western AI models will also become more efficient over time and thus require less resources in the future.
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