Microsoft is set to double down on its generative artificial intelligence efforts in 2025 following the company's Vice Chair and President, Brad Smith's recent announcement of the tech giant's plans to invest up to $80 billion in building data centers.

CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith had lunch with President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance, and

Microsoft is one of the biggest spenders, followed closely by Google and AWS, Bloomberg Intelligence said. Its estimate of Microsoft’s capital spending on AI, at $62.4 billion for calendar 2025, is lower than Smith’s claim that the company will invest $80 billion in the fiscal year to June 30, 2025.

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While Microsoft is thinking on a global scale, the company's Vice Chair and President said more than half of this total investment will be in the US

The massive sum will go towards building out datacenters for training AI models, as well as deploying and improving global AI and cloud-based applications.

Microsoft’s top leaders met with President-elect Trump, Vice President-elect Vance and Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Microsoft President Brad Smith chatted about cybersecurity and technology policy with Trump,

Microsoft has doubled down on its plan to invest $80 billion into artificial technologies in 2025, while at the same time admitting that advancements to the technology will lead to job losses. This was always expected to be the case in some sectors, but Microsoft is now coming out and saying it directly.

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The first phase alone of Microsoft’s data center in Mount Pleasant will likely require the same amount of electricity needed to power more than 300,000 homes, according to new information obtained by the Journal Sentinel. Put into context, the City of Milwaukee has around 262,000 housing units.

The planned spending represents a 44% increase from last year, and more than half of it is expected to come in the U.S.

Over half of the investment is reserved for infrastructure. Microsoft President Brad Smith frames AI investment as key to economic growth.