The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article on Microsoft’s new AI ‘Super Factory’ -> Exclusive | Inside Microsoft’s New AI ‘Super Factory’ – WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/inside-microsofts-new-ai-super-factory-3144d211

Reference: https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/from-wisconsin-to-atlanta-microsoft-connects-datacenters-to-build-its-first-ai-superfactory/

Microsoft’s AI Super Factory

1. The AI Super Factory is located in Atlanta
2. It’s 1 million square feet and spans 85 acres
3. Two story design. The 2 story design supposedly improves network efficiency and reduces latency
   • There will be a liquid cooling system to enable better packing of Nvidia GPUs
4. Will use high speed interconnections to link with other similar factories that will be part of Microsoft’s Fairwater network
   • Microsoft will lay 120,000 miles of fiber optic cables to interlink Fairwater locations
   • There is already one Fairwater site in Wisconsin
   • Straight from Microsoft ->  Microsoft has deployed a dedicated AI WAN backbone to integrate each Fairwater site into a broader elastic system that enables dynamic allocation of diverse AI workloads and maximizes GPU utilization of the combined system.
5. Built specifically for AI training
6. Will house hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. This, straight from Microsoft -> Fairwater is a departure from the traditional cloud datacenter model and uses a single flat network that can integrate hundreds of thousands of the latest NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs into a massive supercomputer.

Reference

1. Microsoft.com (Catherine Bolgar) -> https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/from-wisconsin-to-atlanta-microsoft-connects-datacenters-to-build-its-first-ai-superfactory/
2. Microsoft (Scott Guthrie) -> https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/12/infinite-scale-the-architecture-behind-the-azure-ai-superfactory/
   • Quite a good and quite a technical article. Well worth the read