Prediction: Nvidia Will Be the Biggest Winner in Microsoft's $80 Billion AI Spending Spree

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) made headlines late last week when it announced it would spend $80 billion this year building data centers that would train artificial intelligence (AI) models and handle AI and cloud-based applications around the world. More than half of the investment will be in the U.S. To put the amount Microsoft is spending on AI infrastructure in perspective, that is more than the gross domestic product (GDP) of many countries, including Croatia and Lithuania (to name just two). Microsoft's Azure cloud has been a big AI winner, with the unit growing its revenue by 33% year over year last quarter and Azure OpenAI use doubling in the last six months. However, the company has said growth could be even greater if it were not for capacity constraints, as demand for its AI services has outstripped capacity. Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool