Portugal AI Server
Microsoft has announced a landmark investment of more than US $10 billion to build a new artificial-intelligence-optimised data-centre complex near Sines, Portugal, as part of its global strategy to expand compute capacity and support large-scale AI workloads across Europe. The investment consists of $270m for shared infrastructure and $546m for a second 200MW building at the Sines Data Campus. In June 2019, the Portuguese Government presented the national strategy AI Portugal 2030 (Portugal, 2019) to set out challenges and opportunities of the growing AI ecosystem in Portugal. This strategy presents the plan to foster the use of AI in the public and private sector during the coming. Portugal will launch an AI-focused data center strategy and a sovereign cloud, with pre-licensed zones to speed builds.
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