French consortium to bid for EU's AI datacentre fund - Reuters
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The AION consortium plans a €10 billion AI data centre in France to compete with the US and China, aiming for one gigawatt of total capacity.
Ardian, Orange, EDF, Capgemini, along with Artefact, Bull, Groupe iliad, and Scaleway, have joined forces in the AION consortium to create an AI Gigafactory in France, aiming to build a new-generation AI infrastructure to meet the growing demand for computing power in Europe.
The AION consortium, comprising major French tech and infrastructure companies, plans to seek EU funding for a €10 billion data centre in France, aiming to bolster Europe's AI infrastructure.
A French consortium named AION plans to build a massive data centre costing ten billion euros, seeking funding from the European Union's new twenty billion euro fund to enhance Europe's artificial intelligence capabilities.
Ardian, Artefact, Bull, EDF, Capgemini, the iliad Group, Orange, and Scaleway have formed the AION consortium to bid for a European AI Gigafactory in France, aiming to build a world-class AI infrastructure to serve the European economy.
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