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What is your perspective on the massive capital expenditure cycles currently pouring into global AI data centers?

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Chairman & CEO, Microsoft at Microsoft

Niche: Technology

Revenue: Approx. USD 20 Billion/month

Location: Redmond, Washington, United States

Started: 1975

Whenever a generational platform shift occurs, infrastructure buildout must precede application maturation. We experienced the exact same dynamic during the early rollout of the transcontinental railroad, the electrical grid, and cloud computing. The capital expenditures we are allocating today are backed by tangible enterprise demand, expanding cloud workloads, and real workload migration.

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