Microsoft links Atlanta and Wisconsin data centers to power its first ‘AI superfactory’

Microsoft has launched its first networked “AI superfactory,” linking its new two-story Fairwater data center in Atlanta with a sister site in Wisconsin to accelerate large-scale artificial-intelligence work.

According to a blog post from Microsoft, the Atlanta facility, located in South Fulton County near Palmetto, began operation in October. The data center is connected to Wisconsin using a dedicated fiber-optic “AI WAN” (wide area network) to create a massive supercomputer running on Nvidia chips.

According to Microsoft, this approach means that instead of a single facility training an AI model, multiple sites work in tandem on the same task—enabling what the company calls a “superfactory” capable of training models in weeks instead of months.

Microsoft said in the…