{"id":681282,"date":"2026-11-11T07:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/681282\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:44:11","slug":"microsoft-says-tech-firms-must-prove-ai-data-centers-benefit-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/681282\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says tech firms must &#8216;prove&#8217; AI data centers benefit locals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20261111 Kevin Scott Interview\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Kevin Scott, Microsoft&#8217;s chief technology officer, speaks during an interview on the sidelines of the Nikkei Forum Global Management Dialogue 2026 in Tokyo on Nov 11. (Photo by Satoko Kawasaki)<\/p>\n<p>TSUBASA SURUGA and KOSUKE SHIMIZU<\/p>\n<p>November 11, 2026 14:51 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Technology companies building data centers that power artificial intelligence\u00a0must show their benefits to local communities rather than simply promise economic gains, Microsoft&#8217;s technology chief told Nikkei Asia, as opposition to the projects intensifies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Scott, Microsoft&#8217;s chief technology officer, speaks during an interview on the sidelines of the Nikkei Forum Global&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[220,17549,6633,3096,62634,61,60,186851,1071,28704,62841,25590,216,80],"class_list":["post-681282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-benefit","tag-centers","tag-data","tag-firms","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-locals","tag-microsoft","tag-must","tag-prove","tag-says","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}