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Microsoft

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) develops AI, cloud computing, and enterprise software.

Track Microsoft
Founded
1975
HQ
Redmond, WA
Status
Public
PublicNASDAQ: MSFT

Patents

5

Overview

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) develops AI, cloud computing, and enterprise software. Azure AI provides infrastructure for autonomous systems and robotics. M12 (Microsoft's venture arm) invests in robotics and AI startups. Partnered with Openai for GPT integration across products.

Reality check

Senate DC cost probe (company-claimed)

A Warren, Van Hollen and Blumenthal report finds named AI DC operators do not cover full grid costs, still seek tax breaks, and use NDAs limiting community scrutiny.

Maia 300 rack system (company-claimed)

Oct 2026: 96 Maia 300 accelerators in a 167 kW rack with 27.6 TB of HBM and 1.7 PB/s aggregate HBM bandwidth. Production deployments begin in 2027.

Maia 200 deployment (company-claimed)

Oct 2026: Maia 200 is deploying across the US, Europe and Australia, with up to 1.7x more tokens per watt than leading GPU infrastructure for Teams, Copilot and Cowork.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Cloud

Azure AI and infrastructure used for autonomous systems and robotics.

Venture arm

M12 invests in robotics and AI startups.

OpenAI

Strategic partnership, with GPT models integrated across products.

India South Central region (2026)

Hyderabad region generally available Aug 6 2026, with three availability zones and near-zero water cooling; part of a $20.5B India investment.

NiSource Indiana power deal (company-stated)

20-year electric service from NiSource GenCo / NIPSCO starting 2028 for northwest Indiana campus; Microsoft fully funds required generation and transmission.

Nscale Loughton exit (reported, Oct 2026)

Reported on Oct 18 2026 to have ended its deal to anchor Nscale's Loughton, Essex AI data center, planned for about 23,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, over grid delays.

ATL80 Floyd County, GA campus (state filing, Oct 2026)

Georgia DRI 4860, filed Oct 20, 2026: three buildings up to 1.66M sq ft on 349 acres in Rome, 422 MW from Georgia Power, completion by 2032, 150 jobs.

ATL80 build-out value (sources differ)

DatacenterDynamics reports a $360M build-out value and $35M a year in local tax revenue; Rackline reads the filing as $340M and $36M.

Azure revenue Q1 FY27 (company-reported)

Azure revenue rose 48% to $33.17B in the quarter to Sep 30 2026, its first dollar disclosure. Guides 49% to 50% constant-currency growth for Q2 FY27.

Third-party GPU capacity delays (company-stated, Oct 2026)

CFO Amy Hood said some third-party GPU-as-a-service capacity expected in Q1 FY27 was delayed and shifted to H2 FY27 (Jan to Jun 2027). No provider was named.

Capex Q1 FY27 (company-reported)

$45.2B including finance leases, below the more than $50B it had expected, as third-party deliveries slipped. Expects over $50B in Q2 FY27 and faster spend in H2.

US bond sale (reported, Oct 2026)

Bloomberg reported Oct 29 that Microsoft is seeking at least $25B in a 10-tranche US bond sale, its first since 2017, with maturities from 2 to 40 years.

Data & sources

News coverage

10

Patent documents

5

Web sources

22

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Partnerships

Every company Microsoft has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

357 total284 operating69 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Amphenol2× joint1 total
  2. 2NVIDIA2× joint132 total
  3. 3Abbott1× joint
  4. 4Active Infrastructure1× joint
  5. 5Advance Auto Parts1× joint1 total
  6. 6AGCO1× joint3 total

Most recent

  1. NiSource x Microsoft (Indiana data center power)2026-10-16
    with NiSourcejust announced
  2. ChronoScale and Microsoft 50 MW GB300 deployment2026-08-27
    with ChronoScaleoperating
  3. Hexagon Robotics × Microsoft2026-01-07
    with Hexagon Roboticsoperating
  4. Nebius x Microsoft (Vineland GPU capacity)2025-09-08
    with Nebiusoperating
  5. Atom Computing x Microsoft2024-11-19
    with Atom Computingoperating

Relationships

AAlabama Office of Information Technology (OIT)CustomerBBoeing DefenseCustomerPPSEGCustomerCConnecticut Department of Administrative Services (BEST)CustomerTTrelleborgCustomerSSaint-GobainCustomerMMizuho Financial GroupCustomerFFendtCustomerFFord Motor CompanyCustomerDDassault AviationCustomer

Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by Microsoft, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

  • OpenCapacity · claimed 2026-10-12 · deadline 2027-12-31
    “We will scale our Azure Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services.”
    claim sourcestatus evidencecite this claim
  • OpenCapability · claimed 2026-10-12
    “By improving efficiency across the system, we expect Maia 300 to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt compared to leading GPU-based systems.”
    claim sourcestatus evidencecite this claim

Disagree with a status? Microsoft can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.

Current leadership (1)

Founders (2)

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Former / Previously (5)

Media (1)

Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.

Safety record

No incidents on record for Microsoft.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Microsoft on the data-center map

Every verified data center Microsoft operates that has a mapped coordinate (121 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.

Microsoft data centers (121)

AI data centers Microsoft operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.

Recent coverage

Microsoft in third-party press

Microsoft has begun rolling out Copilot Code for building apps with natural language

Oct 23, 2026

Tech News Today, October 20, 2026: Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Salesforce & More

Oct 20, 2026

Top Tech News Today, October 19, 2026: Anthropic, DeepSeek, Idealab, Meta, Microsoft, & More

Oct 19, 2026

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