Microsoft MSFT announced plans to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on constructing data centers designed for artificial intelligence workloads. Over half of this spending will be focused on the United States, according to a blog post by Brad Smith, Microsoft Vice Chair and President. The fiscal year will conclude in June 2025.

The software giant's president, Brad Smith, said Friday in a blog post that more than half of the $80 billion would be spent in the U.S.

Much of the $80B will go towards data centers to be used for artificial intelligence, as AI progress has resulted in the need for “large-scale infrastructure investments that serve as the essential foundation of AI innovation and use,” Microsoft Vice President Brad Smith wrote in the post.