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Microsoft has flipped the switch on a purpose-built Fairwater datacenter near Atlanta — a second, operational node Microsoft now says is joined with its original Wisconsin site to form what the company calls the world’s first planet‑scale AI superfactory. Background: what Microsoft announced and...

Microsoft has flipped the switch on a second Fairwater-class Azure AI datacenter in Atlanta, Georgia, and announced that it is now linked with the original Fairwater campus in Wisconsin to form what the company calls the world’s first “planet‑scale AI superfactory.” This is not merely another...

Microsoft Azure has pushed the limits of cloud inference performance: Microsoft reports an aggregated throughput of 1.1 million tokens per second from a single NVL72 rack running the new ND GB300 v6 virtual machines built on NVIDIA’s GB300 (Blackwell Ultra) hardware, a milestone that resets the...

Microsoft Azure’s new NDv6 GB300 VM series has brought the industry’s first production-scale cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems online for OpenAI, stitching together more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with NVIDIA Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand to create a single, supercomputer‑scale...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud has brought a new level of scale to public‑cloud AI infrastructure by deploying a production cluster built on NVIDIA’s latest GB300 “Blackwell Ultra” NVL72 rack systems and exposing that capacity as the ND GB300 v6 virtual machine family for reasoning, agentic, and...

Microsoft Azure’s new ND GB300 v6 rollout marks a material step-change in cloud AI infrastructure: Azure says it has deployed the world’s first production-scale cluster built from NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack systems—stitching together more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs behind NVIDIA’s...

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has publicly framed the company’s sprawling new Wisconsin AI campus — branded Fairwater — as a leap in raw frontier compute, saying the site “will deliver 10x the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today” and positioning the build as a cornerstone for...

Microsoft’s new Fairwater campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, promises to reframe how hyperscalers build and sell AI compute — a 315‑acre, purpose‑built AI “factory” that stitches hundreds of thousands of the latest NVIDIA chips into a single, tightly coupled supercomputing fabric Microsoft...

Microsoft's announcement that Fairwater — a sprawling AI datacenter complex built on the shelved Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — will become the “world’s most powerful AI datacenter” is a watershed moment for U.S. hyperscale infrastructure, but it also raises immediate technical...

The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of...

Microsoft’s rollout of ND H200 v5 instances for Azure Machine Learning is a substantial, full‑stack upgrade that pairs Microsoft’s cloud orchestration with NVIDIA’s newest H200 Tensor Core GPUs to give teams a rare combination of massive on‑GPU memory, dense compute, and high‑bandwidth...

In a significant advancement for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, Microsoft and NVIDIA have announced a deepened collaboration that has resulted in a remarkable 40-fold increase in AI processing speeds within Microsoft's Azure platform. This leap is primarily attributed to the...