EU fires starting pistol on €30bn AI Gigafactory bidding process

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Bloc moves to get construction of new mega data centres underway next year with provision of funding, as well as procurement and supplier deals. EU flags aims to balance sovereign ambitions with building out “at speed”…

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  • Organisations: ACS; AION; AMD; Ardian; Brookfield Asset Management; Capgemini; Česke Radiokomunikace; Deutsche Telekom; DGFO; EDF Group; EIB Group; Eneco; EuroHPC Joint Undertaking; European Commission; European Investment Bank; European Investment Fund; European Union; InvestAI; MásOrange; Multiverse Computing; Nokia; NVIDIA; OpCore; Orange; Qualcomm; Santander; Scaleway; SETT; Spanish government; Submer; Telefónica; Vodafone.
  • Geographies: Croatia; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Europe; European Union; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Slovakia; Spain; Sweden; United States of America (USA).
  • People: Margherita Della Valle.
  • Themes: AI Continent Action Plan; AI factories; AI Gigafactory; AI Gigafactories; AI models; AI processors; bidding process; cloud capacity; colocation; critical network infrastructure; cyber attacks; data centres; digital infrastructure; EuroHPC; European sovereign technology; expressions of interest; financing; Gigafactory CZ; hardware supply agreements; high-performance computing; high-risk vendors; hybrid attacks; inferencing; joint procurement agreement; Letters of Intent; mega data centres; procurement; private sector investment; public sector organisations; quantum computing; sovereign ambition; State of the Digital Decade 2026; supercomputers; training

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