{"id":449184,"date":"2026-04-23T02:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/449184\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:29:11","slug":"microsoft-to-invest-18-billion-in-australia-for-ai-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/449184\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to invest $18 billion in Australia for AI push"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">April 23 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/microsoft\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Microsoft&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> said on Thursday it will invest \u200cA$25 billion ($17.9 billion) in \u200cAustralia by the end of 2029 \u200bto boost computing and <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> capacity in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The company said in a statement \u200cthe investment \u2060will help expand its Azure AI supercomputing and \u2060cloud infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity and boost AI skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;Australia has \u200ban enormous opportunity \u200bto \u200btranslate AI into \u200creal economic growth and societal benefit,&#8221; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;That is why we are making our \u200clargest investment in \u200bAustralia to date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u200bmove follows \u200bMicrosoft&#8217;s A$5 billion \u200cinvestment in 2023 aimed \u200bat expanding \u200bits hyperscale cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">($1 = \u200b1.3966 \u200cAustralian dollars)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Fabiola Ar\u00e1mburo \u200bin Mexico City; Editing \u200bby Sherry Jacob-Phillips)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Microsoft said on Thursday it will invest \u200cA$25 billion ($17.9 billion) in \u200cAustralia by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,1128,39221,18,19,17,305,82],"class_list":["post-449184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-australia","tag-cloud-infrastructure","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116451669884189894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}