Facebook’s parent company is building Minnesota’s first mega data center in Rosemount to house its fast-growing need for computing muscle. Amazon and Microsoft bought land for large data centers near Xcel Energy’s soon-retiring coal plant in Becker.

More than half of the $80 billion budget is expected to be deployed in the United States. The facilities will help train AI models and distribute cloud-based applications across the globe, according to Microsoft vice chair Brad Smith.

Microsoft says it plans to spend $80 billion on building AI data centers in the 2025 financial year, a significant increase on last year.