In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said capital expenditures jumped 79% from a year earlier to $14 billion.
"We do have demand that exceeds our supply by a bit," Microsoft CFO Amy Hood told analysts on the company's earnings call.
During the fiscal third quarter, revenue in Microsoft's Azure cloud rose 31%, with 7 percentage points from AI.
Microsoft intends "to scale to meet the growing demand signal for our cloud and AI products," she said.
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Persons:
Amy Hood, Hood, Deepwater's Gene Munster
Organizations:
Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services
Locations:
Bellevue , Washington