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Microsoft Plans To Invest $10 Billion In Portuguese AI Data Hub<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Microsoft (MSFT.O) plans to invest $10 billion in Portugal’s port city of Sines in artificial intelligence<\/a> infrastructure at a data centre over the next few years, marking one of the largest AI investment projects in Europe, it said on Tuesday.<\/div>\n
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They will partner with developers Start Campus, AI infrastructure platform Nscale and chipmaker NVIDIA to deploy 12,600 next-generation NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in Sines, 150 km (93 miles) south of Lisbon.<\/div>\n
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In April, Start Campus, a venture between U.S. investment fund Davidson Kempner and Britain’s Pioneer Point Partners, announced plans to invest 8.5 billion euros ($9.9 billion) by 2030 in a data centre hub to serve the growing demand of\u00a0major tech and AI companies.<\/div>\n
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One of the planned six buildings is already in operation.<\/div>\n
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“By strengthening the national AI infrastructure through collaboration with Nscale, NVIDIA<\/a>, and Start Campus, we are helping to position Portugal as a benchmark for the responsible and scalable development of AI in Europe,” Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Portugal has large investment projects lined up for Sines to produce green energy<\/a> to power energy-intensive data centres. Portugal’s Atlantic coastline positions it as a prime hub for subsea cables connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas, forming the backbone of the World Wide Web.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, Investments in data centres<\/a>, which help provide computing power for AI, have surged, as companies across sectors increasingly shift their operations to the cloud and integrate AI into their businesses.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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