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Microsoft breaks ground on San Jose data center campus to support AI demand
Microsoft broke ground Wednesday on a 48-megawatt data center campus in San Jose’s Alviso neighborhood that city leaders say will support growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The project will be Microsoft’s first purpose-built, company-owned and operated data center in San Jose, according to Jonathan Noble, Microsoft’s senior director of government affairs. John […] The post Microsoft breaks ground on San Jose data center campus to support AI demand appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Microsoft breaks ground on San Jose data center campus to support AI demand, Microsoft broke ground Wednesday on a 48-megawatt data center campus in San Jose’s Alviso neighborhood that city leaders say will support growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The project will be Microsoft’s first purpose-built, company-owned and operated data center in San Jose, according to Jonathan Noble, Microsoft’s senior director of government affairs. John […] The post Microsoft breaks ground on San Jose data center campus to support AI demand appeared first on Local News Matters .
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