Microsoft Azure

Type Hyperscale cloud, internal hyperscaler, AI cloud or regional alternative.

Hyperscale cloud 1

Regions Live cloud regions, from the operator's own region page or region list.

59 1

Zones Availability zones (availability domains at Oracle) the operator states across its regions.

Not published

Countries Countries and territories with at least one live region, counted from the operator's region list.

33 1

Named locations Deployment locations the operator names where it publishes no region count.

Not published

Data centers Data center count in the operator's own words.

500+ datacenters; 80+ regions advertised 2

Owned vs leased What the operator discloses about owning or leasing its facilities.

Not published

AI capacity Announced AI data center capacity in GW or MW, or the scale of a named AI cluster.

Fairwater Wisconsin and Atlanta: hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs per site 3

AI compute The operator's AI accelerators, instances or internal AI platform.

ND GB200 v6 VMs on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks 4

Latest capex Latest reported capital expenditure with its period, plus guidance where given. Group-wide figures for parent companies.

USD 45.2bn incl. finance leases in FY2027 Q1 (Jul to Sep 2026) 5

Investment plan Multi-year AI and cloud investment programs, separate from annual capex.

Not published

Sovereign cloud Named sovereign, government or in-country cloud offerings.

Azure Government (US) and Azure in China as separate sovereign clouds 1

Quarter-by-quarter capex since 2023: Microsoft Azure on Hyperscaler Capex.

1. Azure regions list accessed 2026-11-11
2. Azure global infrastructure accessed 2026-11-11
3. Microsoft: Fairwater AI superfactory accessed 2026-11-11
4. Azure ND GB200 v6 series accessed 2026-11-11
5. Microsoft FY2027 Q1 earnings accessed 2026-11-11