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Oct 30, 2025 12:40 PM

Inside Microsoft's 'Token Factory' — Satya Nadella's Vision For An AI-Powered Future

Satya Nadella has a new metaphor for Microsoft Corp's (NASDAQ:MSFT) AI empire, and it's as industrial as it sounds. "How efficient is our planet-scale token factory?" he asked investors at the first quarter earnings call, describing the company's sprawling global network of AI data centers.

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Building The World's Most Efficient AI Infrastructure

The "token factory" is Nadella's shorthand for Microsoft's AI infrastructure, a constantly modernizing fleet that powers everything from GPT-5 training to Copilot queries.

"It's not like we buy one version of Nvidia and load up for all the gigawatts we have," he said. ...