Microsoft has unveiled Fairwater, its largest and most advanced AI data center to date, located in Wisconsin. Microsoft says the aim is to link them together into a single, global Azure AI data center, effectively creating a distributed AI supercomputer. A typical cloud data center runs many smaller jobs at once, like hosting websites or email. An AI data center instead focuses all of its resources on one enormous task — training massive AI models. These AI datacenters consume more energy than hundreds of households use in a year.