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April 10, 2025

Microsoft is ‘slowing or pausing' some AI data center projects, including $1B plan for Ohio

  • The company said it still plans to spend more than $80 billion globally to expand its AI infrastructure this fiscal year.
    • By MATT O'BRIEN
    AP Technology Writer

    Microsoft said it is “slowing or pausing” some of its data center construction, including a $1 billion project in Ohio, the latest sign that the demand for artificial intelligence technology that drove a massive infrastructure expansion might not need quite as many powerful computers as expected.

    The tech giant confirmed this week that it is halting early stage projects on rural land it owns in central Ohio's Licking County, outside of Columbus, and will reserve two of the three sites for farmland.


     
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