Microsoft has announced plans to spend $7.5 billion on the expansion of digital and AI infrastructure in Canada over the next two years.
The funding will be used to increase computing capacity at Microsoft’s two primary Canadian Azure data centres in Toronto and Quebec City, Microsoft president and vice-chair Brad Smith said in a Dec. 9 blog post. He said the data centres will power modernized public services and AI innovation, and will lead to the creation of thousands of construction and permanent engineering and tech jobs.
“We’re building new digital and AI infrastructure needed for the nation’s growth and prosperity, with new capacity beginning to come online in the second half of 2026,” Smith said.
Microsoft said this new funding is part of $19 billion in spending that the company has allotted to Canada between 2023 and 2027. The company employs more than 5,300 across 11 Canadian cities….