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“In FY 2025, Microsoft is on track to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters … More than half of this total investment will be in the United States.”
Not yet verifiedDeadline: End of Microsoft FY2025 (30 June 2025) · Deadline passedLast checked: 2026-11-01Microsoft On the Issues · The golden opportunity for American AI

Not yet verified. Microsoft’s capital expenditure including finance leases totalled about $88.2 billion in FY2025 (sum of the four quarterly figures its CFO reported). That covers all capital spending, not only AI-enabled data centres, and Microsoft does not break out the AI share, so we cannot yet confirm the $80 billion figure or the US share. The deadline has passed; that alone does not make the promise broken.

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2026-11-01 · Not yet verified — Added to tracker.

2026-11-01 · Not yet verified — Rechecked: total capex ≈ $88.2bn, but no AI-datacentre breakdown. Kept as not yet verified; no longer shown as overdue. Microsoft FY2025 Q4 earnings call Microsoft Form 10-K, FY2025

Microsoft intends “to invest more than $35 billion in 14 countries within three years to build trusted and secure AI and cloud datacenter infrastructure.”
In progressDeadline: About 2027 (three years from the 2024 announcement) · 14 mo leftLast checked: 2026-11-01Microsoft On the Issues · The golden opportunity for American AI

Within its stated window. Country-level spending is not consistently disclosed.

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2026-11-01 · In progress — Added to tracker.

“In 2025 alone, Microsoft is on a path to train 2.5 million American students, workers, and community members with the AI skills to land new jobs.”
Not yet verifiedDeadline: End of 2025 · Deadline passedLast checked: 2026-11-01Microsoft On the Issues · The golden opportunity for American AI

Window has passed. Any delivery figure would be self-reported; we have not yet located a dated company report or independent count.

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2026-11-01 · Not yet verified — Added to tracker.

Microsoft will honour the common AI-training opt-out signal for publishers beginning 1 February 2027.
In progressDeadline: 1 February 2027 · 3 mo leftLast checked: 2026-11-01The Hindu (AFP)

Paraphrased from wire reporting of Microsoft’s blog post. Google committed to “sometime in 2027”, OpenAI to “the coming months”.

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2026-11-01 · In progress — Added to tracker.