Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told investors and analysts that the company’s data center in Mount Pleasant went online in early April “six weeks ahead of schedule, allowing us to recognize revenue earlier.”
However, the company says that the data center, called Fairwater, isn’t online yet.
Nadella made the comments during the April 29 third quarter earnings call, in which the company announced a profit of $31.8 billion for the quarter.
When asked for comment, Microsoft referred the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to a post on X by Nadella on April 16, days before the earnings call, for the official comment:
“Our Fairwater datacenter in Wisconsin is going live, ahead of schedule,” the post reads. “As the world’s most powerful AI datacenter, it will bring together hundreds of thousands of GB200s into a single seamless cluster. Congrats to all the teams who made this possible!”
There is equipment inside the data center conducting start-up activities, which the company anticipates will continue to happen for the next several weeks.
The GB200s Nadella mentioned are the high-performance superchips made by Nvidia.
Microsoft has been building in Mount Pleasant since it acquired land from Foxconn Technology Group in 2024.
So far, Microsoft has committed $7.3 billion to building its facilities in Mount Pleasant.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Microsoft CEO Nadella says Mt. Pleasant data center is online. Not so fast.
Reporting by Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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