Newshot Article title: No subsidies, no added costs for others: Microsoft pledges to foot the power bill for its AI expansion
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No subsidies, no added costs for others: Microsoft pledges to foot the power bill for its AI expansion
IT之家 November 13 news: Bloomberg published a blog post yesterday (November 12) reporting that Microsoft will seek to power its AI data centers without relying on government subsidies and without raising costs for other electricity users.
Speaking yesterday at the BloombergNEF conference in Houston, Microsoft President of Cloud Operations and Innovation Noelle Walsh (Noelle Walsh) said: "We don't want other customers to pay for our growth. We will bear the costs ourselves."
The report says the company plans to invest $117 billion this year (IT之家 note: roughly 782.153 billion yuan at current exchange rates) to build related computing capacity. As data centers draw attention in many parts of the United States, Microsoft is emphasizing "community first," arguing that project construction should benefit local residents.
On specific projects, Microsoft is working with Chevron Corp. and Joulent, a company founded by investment firm Engine No. 1, to advance a large data center and supporting power project called "Project Kilby" in West Texas. However, the project has been slowed by a local policy pause on approving new data centers.
Despite the approval obstacles, Chevron still aims to start operations in 2028 and reach full operation in 2031. Chevron's head of new energy business said the project will create local jobs and stable tax revenue, and stressed that projects that cannot bring net benefits to the community are "doomed to fail."
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