Microsoft is making a $7.3 billion bet on data centers in Racine County -- a sum that almost surely will grow -- that it hopes will pay off in the future, despite uncertainty about the economy and AI.

“Right now, what we really strive to ensure is that Microsoft is a source of digital stability and a source of economic stability,” said Microsoft president and vice chair Brad Smith in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“And we live in a time where we all could benefit from, I’ll just say, both change and stability. Depending on how you look in the world.”

The company has announced two major data centers in Mount Pleasant that carry a combined price tag of $7.3 billion. And that's just the projects that have been announced with a price tag attached. Another smaller scale

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