Cyberdudebivash

  Executive Summary Microsoft is constructing a massive AI-training facility dubbed Fairwater , located in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, with a launch expected in early 2026. Costing at least US$3.3 billion , with a second facility coming soon (bringing total spend in Wisconsin to over US$7 billion ), Fairwater is intended to deliver ten times the performance of today’s fastest supercomputers, powered by “hundreds of thousands” of NVIDIA GPUs. The Official Microsoft Blog +3 TechRadar +3 The Official Microsoft Blog +3 This is Microsoft’s strategic play to dominate frontier AI model training, scale up OpenAI & Copilot workloads, and establish resilient infrastructure for innovation. But with great scale come great risks: energy demand, governance, supply-chain exposure, geopolitical risks, and long-term environmental impact. Below, I unpack what this means, how risk vectors shift, and how defenders & stakeholders need to prepare. 1. Key facts about Fairwater Specification ...