IT Home On November 13, Bloomberg reported yesterday (November 12) that it posted a blog post.According to reports, Microsoft will seek to power its AI data centers without relying on government subsidies or increasing the costs of other power users.
At the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference held in Houston yesterday, Microsoft Cloud Operations & Innovation President Noelle Walsh said: “We don’t want other customers to pay for our growth. We will cover the costs ourselves.”
According to reports, the company plans to invest $117 billion this year (IT Home note: at current exchange rates, this is approximately 782.153 billion yuan) to build related computing capabilities. As data centers have attracted attention in many places in the United States, Microsoft emphasizes “community priority” and argues that project construction should benefit local residents.
Regarding specific projects, Microsoft is collaborating with Chevron Corp. and Joulent, a company founded by the investment firm Engine No. 1, to advance a large data center and supporting power supply project called “Project Kilby” in western Texas. However, the project has been hindered due to local policies that suspend the approval of new data centers.
Despite the approval obstacles, Chevron aims to start operations in 2028 and fully launch in 2031. The head of Chevron’s new energy business said that the project will create jobs and generate stable tax revenue for the local area, and emphasized that a project that cannot bring net benefits to the community is “destined to fail”.