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Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote in a blog post on Friday that more than half of this expected spending through June 2025 will be in the United States. Smith wrote that recent progress in AI is due to “large-scale investments in the infrastructure that serves as an essential foundation for the innovation and use of AI.”
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Cloud infrastructure providers such as Microsoft and Amazon.com Inc. To expand computing capacity by building new data centers. In the previous fiscal year ending June 2024, Microsoft spent more than $50 billion on capital expenditures, the vast majority of which was related to building out a server farm fueled by demand for AI services.
Smith also warned the incoming Donald Trump administration of “strict regulations” related to artificial intelligence. “The most important priority in US public policy must be ensuring that the American private sector can continue to advance with the winds at its back,” Smith wrote.
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The country needs “a practical export control policy that balances strong security protections for AI components in trusted data centers with the ability of U.S. companies to expand quickly and provide a reliable source of supply to many countries that are America’s allies and friends,” Smith said. books.
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