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EU looks to the private sector to help fund ‘AI Gigafactories’, eyeing the frontier AI race


The European Union is courting the private sector as it looks to step up compute capacity for training large AI models. Giving a speech at the AI Action

However, back in January, the U.S.-based Stargate project pledged to commit up to $500 billion over four years to build out data center infrastructure with the aim of cementing U.S. leadership in AI. Switching briefly into sales pitch mode, she implied that Europe could attract capital for the next phase of AI infrastructure by merit of its tendency to take a collaborative, rather than competitive, approach to IP development — focused on pooling and sharing knowledge across Member States for public good. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues.

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