{"id":165698,"date":"2025-09-18T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165698\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:37:06","slug":"microsoft-is-turning-foxconns-empty-buildings-into-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165698\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is turning Foxconn\u2019s empty buildings into the \u2018world\u2019s most powerful\u2019 AI data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The new data center is massive at 1.2 million square feet spread over three buildings on 315 acres of land. Under those roofs are \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of Nvidia\u2019s GB200 GPUs, \u201cconnected by enough fiber to circle the Earth 4.5 times,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/satyanadella\/status\/1968677244861379012\" rel=\"nofollow\">Satya Nadella<\/a>. Microsoft claims this cluster of interconnected GPUs is ten-times more powerful than the fastest super computer and will greatly accelerate its AI training efforts. The company says that multiple other Fairwater datacenters are under construction across the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new data center is massive at 1.2 million square feet spread over three buildings on 315 acres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,1281,3,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-165698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-microsoft","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}