Microsoft president Brad Smith has introduced throughout a go to to Johannesburg that the US software program large will make investments R5.4-billion in new information centre infrastructure in South Africa.
The brand new information centres will probably be constructed for synthetic clever workloads, Smith introduced at an business occasion on Thursday attended by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Smith, who additionally serves as vice chairman of Microsoft, mentioned the corporate has spent greater than R20-billion up to now on its Azure information centres in South Africa.
The brand new information centre infrastructure will embody a giant funding in AI infrastructure, populated with GPUs, or graphics processing items, he mentioned.
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“South Africa is getting greater than its share [of GPUs] as a result of it’s a mirrored image of how this may be put to make use of right here, and thru the remainder of Africa as a complete.”
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On the identical occasion, Smith introduced Microsoft will sponsor the event of fifty 000 individuals in high-demand digital expertise. The individuals will earn technical certifications. – © 2025 NewsCentral Media
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