Microsoft ships Maia 200 as Nvidia and CoreWeave add 5 GW

Claim

Microsoft won approval for fifteen more Wisconsin data centers and unveiled the Maia 200 inference accelerator at three times Trainium's performance, while Nvidia and CoreWeave committed another $2 billion toward 5 GW of AI factories by 2030.

Reported metric: 5 GW / $2B

Reporting date: 2026-01-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to January 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)