Key Takeaways Microsoft is slated to spend $80 billion on data centers needed to train and run artificial intelligence by the end of the fiscal year, president Brad Smith said Friday in a blog post.More than half of the investment will occur domestically,

Microsoft (MSFT) plans to invest $80 billion in artificial intelligence data centers throughout 2025, with nearly half earmarked for US infrastructure development. Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley analyzes Microsoft's expansion plans and efforts to capitalize on what the company calls "the electricity of the modern age.

Microsoft is planning to spend about $80 billion in fiscal 2025 to build data centers to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications, the company said in a blog post on Friday.

Much of the $80B will go towards data centers to be used for artificial intelligence, as AI progress has resulted in the need for “large-scale infrastructure investments that serve as the essential foundation of AI innovation and use,” Microsoft Vice President Brad Smith wrote in the post.

Microsoft announced it would be investing $80 billion of its budget for the fiscal year 2025 on building AI specific data centers.

Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle artificial intelligence workloads, the company said in a Friday blog post.