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Nadella Claims New AI Data Centers Use Same Water as One Restaurant
Satya Nadella dropped a surprising statistic on attendees at Build 2026 in early June: Microsoft’s newest AI data centers can use, over an entire year, roughly the same amount of water as a single...
Microsoft's Rack-First Fairwater Data Centers Target Planet-Scale AI with NVLink and Advanced Cooling
Microsoft is building what it describes as a "planet-scale AI superfactory" with its new Fairwater data center site in Atlanta, joining a previously announced Wisconsin campus to create a...
Microsoft's Wisconsin AI Factory: How 72-GPU Racks and Liquid Cooling Could Supercharge the Cloud
On September 18, 2025, Microsoft revealed Fairwater—a 315-acre AI datacenter campus in Wisconsin that is more silicon foundry than server farm. Each rack inside holds 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...
Microsoft's Quincy Water Reuse Utility Shows How Data Centers Can Survive the Drought Era
Microsoft and the City of Quincy, Washington, have built a dedicated water reuse utility that treats and recycles millions of gallons of cooling water for the tech giant’s data center campus—a...