Microsoft bought nearly 500,000 Nvidia Hopper chips this year

Microsoft bought more than twice as many Nvidia Hopper chips this year than any of its biggest rivals.

The tech giant bought 485,000 Nvidia Hopper chips this year according to reporting from the Financial Times, which cited data from tech consultancy Omdia. To compare, Meta bought 224,000 of the same, flagship Nvidia chip this year. Microsoft’s 2024 chip purchase more than tripled the number of Nvidia chips the company bought in 2023.

Microsoft is building its own custom AI chips, too, called Maia, which it announced at its Ignite conference in late 2023.

The company has really immersed itself in AI this year. Microsoft deepened its partnership with OpenAI and participated in the company’s colossal $6.6 billion funding round in October. The company also signed a deal to reopen the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear plant in September and purchase all of the power that the plant creates for 20 years to help juice its data centers.