Microsoft pledged to cover data-center expansion electricity costs without government subsidies or shifting costs to other electricity consumers.

Microsoft’s cloud operations and innovation head, Noelle Walsh, said the company would bear the electricity costs associated with its data-center expansion. The pledge explicitly excludes reliance on government subsidies or transferring those costs to other electricity consumers.

The same report states that Microsoft plans to spend $117 billion during the year on AI and cloud computing capacity. That is the scope of the reported overall capacity-investment plan, not a disclosed electricity budget or a cost estimate for one development.

Microsoft also said data-center construction must deliver a net benefit to host communities. The supplied message does not provide utility tariff agreements, enforceable cost-allocation terms, or project-level electricity charges, so it documents a corporate pledge rather than completed implementation across its facilities.