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

Microsoft Corp. plans to spend $80 billion this fiscal year building out data centers, underscoring the intense capital requirements of artificial intelligence.

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.

Key Takeaways Microsoft is slated to spend $80 billion on data centers needed to train and run artificial intelligence by the end of the fiscal year, president Brad Smith said Friday in a blog post.More than half of the investment will occur domestically,

Microsoft will invest about $3 billion to expand capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) and its Azure cloud-computing services in India, CEO Satya Nadella said at an event on Tuesday. (Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru;

The company plans to grow the company’s Azure cloud business in India and set up new data centers.

Microsoft Corp. plans to spend $3 billion to expand its cloud computing and artificial intelligence capabilities in India, targeting the world’s most populous country to fuel its revenue growth.