By cryptoadmin 
It's France's flip to get in on the AI growth. On Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron introduced personal investments into the nation's AI ecosystem totaling €109 billion ($112.5 billion). The announcement got here forward of Paris internet hosting the AI Motion Summit on Monday and Tuesday.
"I can inform you this night, Europe goes to hurry up, France goes to hurry up," Macron acknowledged throughout a TV interview on France 2 and India's First Publish. He additional defined that the funding is "precisely the equal for France of what america introduced with Stargate — $500 billion — it’s the identical ratio," when accounting for France's considerably smaller inhabitants.
As we speak, France may also reportedly pledge a gigawatt of nuclear energy to create an AI computing undertaking, the The Wall Street Journal experiences. France has nuclear energy to spare, with 57 reactors in 18 vegetation and exporting a few fifth of the electrical energy it produced final yr — regardless of utilizing nuclear energy for over two-thirds of its electrical energy.
The undertaking's lead, FluidStack, goals to begin work within the third quarter of 2024. By the tip of 2026, the aim is to have 250 megawatts of energy linked to AI-computing chips. Most of those chips are made by Nvidia, which FluidStack claims will ship chips over after they want them. It additionally states that there's potential to develop to a ten gigawatt facility by 2030.
The information follows Macron and United Arab Emirates chief Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan's February 6 announcement to place between €30 million and €50 million ($31 million to $51.6 million) in direction of a one-gigawatt AI heart.
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