Unlike many other big tech platforms, LinkedIn has decided it won’t spend aggressively on expanding its AI data centers this fiscal year. Companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Google are scrounging up all the money they can find and coupling up in unexpected partnerships to construct, furnish, and operate massive data centers filled with the newest computer chips. Owning ItA few years after Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016, the company tried moving to its parent company’s Azure cloud service, but it didn’t make economic sense to squeeze the giant social network into general-purpose data centers. In 2022, LinkedIn went all-in on its own data centers in Oregon, Texas, and Virginia. “Every query that's coming to our site has increased in cost over time,” Hiremagalur says, adding that the amount of data LinkedIn stored was doubling annually.