By WSBTV.com News Staff
Publication Date: 2025-11-13 18:23:00
ATLANTA — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Wednesday that the company was unveiling a new, ‘purpose-built’ data center in Atlanta. The data center first started operations in October.
Known as Fairwater 2, the Atlanta facility will be paired and connected with the first Fairwater site in Wisconsin.
Nadella said in his announcement that the move would be part of a “broader Azure footprint to create the world’s first AI superfactory” and was an example of building infrastructure that “can serve any workload, anywhere,” no matter what the need is.
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The tech giant said to meet the “unprecedented demand for AI computing,” it had reinvented how it approached data center design.
The Fairwater facilities are “a departure from the traditional cloud data center model and uses a single flat network,” integrating hundreds of graphics cards to process data as a massive supercomputer.
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