Microsoft expanding data center footprint with AI ‘super factory,’ WSJ reports

Microsoft is expanding its ambitious data center build-out with an AI “super factory,” a set of two-story structures in Atlanta aimed at connecting seamlessly with infrastructure in other areas to harness immense computing power, The Wall Street Journal’s Sebastian Herrera writes. The company is doubling its total data-center footprint over the next two years. One of its most important new sites is the factory in Atlanta that it is unveiling Wednesday, the publication notes. The site, part of its Fairwater network of artificial-intelligence centers, is a new class of Microsoft (MSFT) hubs built for AI training. It will contain hundreds of thousands of Nvidia (NVDA) graphics processing units and dedicated high-speed connections to other Fairwater locations, the author adds.