Microsoft to invest about $300 million more in AI infrastructure in South Africa
The Hindu
Microsoft will invest an additional 5.4 billion rand ($296.81 million) in AI infrastructure in South Africa.
Microsoft will invest an additional 5.4 billion rand ($296.81 million) in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in South Africa, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said on Thursday.
Smith also said at an event in Johannesburg that the world's biggest software maker would pay for technical certification exams for 50,000 individuals in high-demand digital skills.
Microsoft announced in January that it was planning to invest about $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on developing data centres to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications.

Scaling Artificial Intelligence(AI) at the speed at which consultants project is not possible by the laws of physics and may not be environmentally sustainable, said Tanvir Khan, who is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of NTT DATA North America, part of the Japanese technology services and data centre company NTT Data, in an interview with The Hindu.












