Despite a pledge made in January to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in FY 2025, a new report indicates Microsoft is already dropping some of its current data center leases.

It is being reported that Microsoft has recently canceled several data center leases in the U.S., prompting concerns about its long-term AI infrastructure strategy. According to TD Cowen, the tech giant voided agreements amounting to "a couple of hundred megawatts" of capacity, roughly equivalent to two large data centers.

Microsoft Corp. has canceled some leases for US data center capacity, according to TD Cowen, raising broader concerns over whether it’s securing more AI computing capacity than it needs in the long term.