Microsoft announces new AI data center project in Atlanta

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman speaks during a presentation of the company's AI assistant, Copilot, ahead of a 50th Anniversary presentation at Microsoft headquarters, Friday, April 4, 2024, in Redmond, Wash.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman speaks during a presentation of the company's AI assistant, Copilot, ahead of a 50th Anniversary presentation at Microsoft headquarters, Friday, April 4, 2024, in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)

This story was updated on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, at 5:41 p.m.

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new data center under construction in Atlanta, Georgia, describing it as connected to another in Wisconsin to form a “massive supercomputer” running on hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips to power AI technology.



Artificial intelligence company Anthropic also announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure on Wednesday that will include new data centers in Texas and New York.