Over half of the investment is reserved for infrastructure. Microsoft President Brad Smith frames AI investment as key to economic growth.

Microsoft says it plans to spend $80 billion on building AI data centers in the 2025 financial year, a significant increase on last year.

Microsoft has revealed plans to invest $80 billion in AI data centers throughout the first half of 2025. Vice Chair and President Brad Smith took to a New Year blog post to boldly state the US’s opportunity to “​​harness new technology to invigorate the nation’s economy” is the greatest it has been since the advent of electricity.

Microsoft said Friday it would spend $80 billion to built out AI-enabled data centers in the fiscal year that ends in June.

According to a report from CNBC, Microsoft (MSFT, Financial) is making a bold move to solidify its dominance in the artificial intelligence space and plans to invest $80 billion in AI-enabled data centers by the end of its fiscal 2025.

While Microsoft is thinking on a global scale, the company's Vice Chair and President said more than half of this total investment will be in the US

The planned spending represents a 44% increase from last year, and more than half of it is expected to come in the U.S.

The tech giant will funnel more than half of the investments into U.S.-based facilities, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said Friday.

Microsoft is one of the biggest spenders, followed closely by Google and AWS, Bloomberg Intelligence said. Its estimate of Microsoft’s capital spending on AI, at $62.4 billion for calendar 2025, is lower than Smith’s claim that the company will invest $80 billion in the fiscal year to June 30, 2025.

Microsoft is planning to invest about $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on developing data centers to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications, the company said in a blog post on Friday.