Microsoft has bought more than twice as many Nvidia Hopper chips this year as its biggest rival.
The tech giant bought 485,000 Nvidia Hopper chips this year, according to a report in the Financial Times, citing data from technology consultancy Omdia. For comparison, Meta bought 224,000 of the same flagship Nvidia chips this year. Microsoft's 2024 chip purchases were more than triple the number of Nvidia chips it purchased in 2023.
Microsoft is also developing its own custom AI chip called Maia, which it announced at the Ignite conference in late 2023.
This year, the company got serious about AI. Microsoft has deepened its partnership with OpenAI, participating in the company's massive $6.6 billion funding round in October. The company also restarted the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in September and signed a deal to buy all the power it produces for 20 years to help power data centers.