{"id":1004444,"date":"2026-04-23T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004444"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:38:40","slug":"microsoft-bets-big-on-ai-in-australia-with-18-billion-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/microsoft-bets-big-on-ai-in-australia-with-18-billion-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft bets big on AI in Australia with $18 billion investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said on Thursday that it will invest A$25 billion ($17.9 billion) in Australia by the end of 2029 to boost computing and artificial intelligence capacity, betting on growing demand for the technology in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. tech giant&#8217;s latest investment \u200creflects rising demand for \u2060AI technologies \u2060and positions Australia as a key growth market. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said the investment will support the expansion of its Azure AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity and promote AI skills development across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said on Thursday that it will invest A$25 billion ($17.9 billion) in Australia by the end of 2029 to boost computing and artificial intelligence capacity, betting on growing demand for the technology in the country. The U.S. tech giant&#8217;s latest investment \u200creflects rising demand for \u2060AI technologies \u2060and positions Australia as a key growth market. Microsoft said the investment will support the expansion of its Azure AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity and promote AI skills development across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}