The company plans to grow the company’s Azure cloud business in India and set up new data centers.

Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft announced the strategic investment in India with plans to train 10 million people by 2030 on AI tech.

Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion in AI. This is a huge amount when compared to its revenue, earnings, and cash.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will invest $3B in India for cloud and AI infrastructure over the next two years. The company's Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella — who made the announcement during his Microsoft AI Tour in Bengaluru,

Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday. Those data centers will be used to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world — although more than half of the investment will be in the US,

The massive sum will go towards building out datacenters for training AI models, as well as deploying and improving global AI and cloud-based applications.

With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait The AI datacenter spending splurge looks likely to continue in 2025, with Microsoft alone saying it will invest $80 billion this year on building out infrastructure to train and deploy AI models.