Microsoft is more than doubling its multi-billion investment in Wisconsin, planning to build what it says will be the most advanced artificial intelligence data center in the world in Mount Pleasant.
The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant announced on Thursday that it plans to spend another $4 billion on an expansion of the data center campus that it has been building in Mount Pleasant. It’s a new phase of Microsoft’s development there after the company announced last year its plans to build a $3.3 billion data center on land once slated for Foxconn.
Construction on the first data center, located at the northwest corner of Hwy 195 and 90th Street, will be complete next year and will employ about 500 people, according to Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft.