"Microsoft's CEO has claimed the operating system-slinger is building the "world's largest datacenter." In an X post on Thursday, Satya Nadella said that the datacenter Microsoft has built at Fairwater, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, would be ten times faster than the world's largest supercomputer, have "hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GB200s," and enough fiber connections to encircle the world 4.5 times. That's about 35,550 miles (57,600 kilometers), based on the Earth's equatorial diameter."
"Once touted as a new innovation hyub, it has suffered multiple corporate letdowns from many national leaders, but on Wednesday Microsoft's president Brad Smith said it was time to bring investment back to his home by building datacenters. "As someone who spent almost five years as a kid going to school and delivering the morning newspaper by bicycle in Mount Pleasant, this moment means more than just personal nostalgia," Smith said in a blog post."
Satya Nadella said Microsoft built a Fairwater datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin that would be ten times faster than the world's largest supercomputer, include hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GB200s, and have fiber connections to encircle Earth 4.5 times (about 35,550 miles). Brad Smith said the investment brings jobs and frames Wisconsin as helping define American innovation. Mount Pleasant previously hosted a Foxconn project that received $3 billion in subsidies, promised 30,000 jobs, cut its target to 13,000, and delivered 281. Foxconn abandoned the site and Microsoft acquired much of the land for a $3.3 billion AI facility. Microsoft paused expansion in January to evaluate scope and technology changes, prompting local concern.
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