Microsoft has paused development work for its deliberate second section of a knowledge centre for synthetic intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Racine County, Wisconsin.
The corporate stated in an electronic mail to GCR that works have been “totally on monitor” for the $3.3bn first section of the event, as introduced in Might 2024. Nonetheless, work on the second section had been paused whereas Microsoft evaluated how the venture is likely to be affected by “latest modifications in expertise”.
The corporate stated modifications within the plans and permits wanted to be mentioned with native and state authorities, a course of that’s anticipated to take some months.
Supplementary initiatives, equivalent to an AI co-innovation lab on the College of Wisconsin–Milwaukee have been nonetheless resulting from go forward, in line with Microsoft.
The plant is being constructed on a 130ha website, which Microsoft purchased for $50m in 2023. Beforehand the land was earmarked for a chip manufacturing facility belonging to Taiwanese tech firm Foxconn, a scheme that was as soon as lauded by the Trump administration because the “the eighth marvel of the world”.
Microsoft not too long ago introduced it was constructing a datacentre with cross-laminated timber in northern Virginia.
