Microsoft to Build More Data Centers as Cloud and AI Lead Growth

Microsoft will proceed investing in capital expenditures all through its fiscal yr 2026 after seeing its cloud and synthetic intelligence (AI) choices lead its income features within the third quarter of fiscal yr 2025.

“These investments, together with centered execution that delivers near-term worth to our clients, will guarantee we proceed to guide by way of the cloud and AI alternative forward,” Microsoft Chief Monetary Officer Amy Hood stated Thursday (April 30) throughout the firm’s quarterly earnings name.

Microsoft’s Clever Cloud enterprise led the corporate’s income progress throughout the quarter ended March 31, in line with a presentation launched Wednesday together with the decision.

The Clever Cloud enterprise was up 21% yr over yr, whereas Productiveness and Enterprise Processes was up 10% and Extra Private Computing was up 6%. General, Microsoft’s income was up 13% yr over yr, per the presentation.

“Cloud and AI are the important inputs for each enterprise to increase output, cut back prices and speed up progress,” Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella stated throughout the name.

Throughout the latest quarter, the corporate opened information facilities in 10 nations on 4 continents, Nadella stated. He added that mannequin capabilities are doubling in efficiency each six months and that the corporate’s price per token has greater than halved.

Microsoft is introducing AI brokers “for each position and enterprise course of,” Nadella stated throughout the name. He highlighted a Gross sales Agent that turns contacts into certified leads, Gross sales Chat that may get reps in control on new accounts and a Buyer Service Agent that manages buyer inquiries and helps service reps resolve points sooner.

“This quarter alone, clients created over 1 million customized brokers throughout SharePoint and Copilot Studio, up 130% quarter over quarter,” Nadella added throughout the name.

Wanting forward, Microsoft expects its Clever Cloud enterprise to see income progress of 20% to 22% in fixed forex throughout the present quarter. (Within the quarter ended March 31, it grew 22% in fixed forex.) This progress will likely be pushed by its cloud platform Azure.

“In our non-AI companies, we count on centered execution to proceed driving wholesome progress,” Hood stated throughout the name. “In our AI companies, whereas we proceed to deliver information heart capability on-line as deliberate, demand is rising a bit sooner. Due to this fact, we now count on to have some AI capability constraints past June.”