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Fairwater AI Datacenter Announced

Date: September 15, 2025
Company: Microsoft
Category: Hardware & Infrastructure

Narrative

World's most powerful AI datacenter. 10x performance vs fastest supercomputer. Wisconsin location. Liquid-cooled infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of GPUs.

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Reality

Fairwater construction ongoing. First Azure deployment of NVIDIA GB300 at scale. Atlanta site joins to form AI superfactory. Liquid cooling validated.

Implication

Hyperscale AI infrastructure race intensified. Liquid cooling became standard not optional. GPU clustering at hundreds of thousands scale. Power requirements reshaping datacenter economics.

Tags

  • microsoft
  • data-center
  • infrastructure
  • compute