NEWS: Microsoft CEO announces world’s most powerful AI data center

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Fairwater, the world’s most powerful AI data center, now under development in Wisconsin. (X)

  • Nadella says the facility will run on renewables and use liquid cooling that requires no ongoing water consumption. 

  • For context: Fairwater includes hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200s, connected by fiber long enough to wrap the Earth 4.5 times, delivering 10X the performance of today’s fastest supercomputer.

  • Between the lines: Microsoft added over 2 GW of new capacity last year, and identical Fairwater clusters are planned at other sites.

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