Something’s Gone Wrong With Microsoft’s Huge AI Data Center Investments

Data centers are everywhere. As the world’s tech companies demand more computing power to make their software run, the facilities have popped up in every corner of the planet. They make up the backbone of global network servers, cloud computing — and of course AI.

Microsoft has been a major player in the global data center boom, but its ambitions may now be faltering, in a bellwether for the AI industry. The tech behemoth recently decided to scale back data center projects around the globe,…