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Microsoft plans to triple its global data center capacity to 38 gigawatts by 2032, up from 12 gigawatts. The company will dedicate one-third of this capacity to AI compute and add CPUs to power agentic workflows.
Sun reports that tech companies frequently require local officials to sign non-disclosure agreements, which prevents towns from managing public narratives. Microsoft has abandoned the practice of using NDAs for data center projects due to intense local blowback.
Data centers can offer substantial property tax revenue and local jobs. In Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, a small village of 28,000 people, Microsoft is on track to pay $19.6 million in property taxes in 2026.
Microsoft is swapping out OpenAI models for its in-house MAI models, making MAI Image 2.5 the default for PowerPoint and Bing. Mustafa Suleyman reports this transition achieved an 84% reduction in PowerPoint compute costs.
Microsoft's custom post-training of its small MAI Code 1 Flash model yielded a 10% higher code acceptance rate than GPT-5.4 Mini and Haiku-4.5. Fine-tuning also increased the model's SweeBench verified score from 72% to 86%.
Rogan notes that Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI was dismissed on a technicality rather than its merits. Musk alleged the company breached its charitable trust by pivoting from a non-profit model to a highly commercialized partnership with Microsoft.