Microsoft announced on Tuesday its intention to invest $10 billion (8.65 billion euros) at the beginning of next year in a large data center in Portugal to develop an infrastructure dedicated to artificial intelligence.
In cooperation with … British company NeskilSpecializing in data centers for artificial intelligence, and Start Campus, which has launched construction of a major data center near the port of Sense in southern Portugal, Microsoft hopes to install 12,600 next-generation Nvidia chips.
“This is one of the largest investments in AI computing capacity in Europe,” Microsoft said in a statement.
Microsoft President Brad Smith indicated in an interview with the Portuguese newspaper “Jornal de Negocios” that Portugal has become a “very important and attractive” country in Europe to build this type of data centers and make these investments.
On Tuesday in Lisbon, Smith participated in the Web Summit, a major annual event for the digital economy. In addition to a data center powered by renewable energy, the Sines site offers the advantage of being the connection point for critical cables Communications submarines Which unites America with Europe.
Regarding data centers, demand in the field of artificial intelligence, especially “in the last five months,” has become “absolutely crazy,” according to what EnScale product manager Daniel Bathurst told AFP.
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