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LISBON (Reuters) -Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure at a data centre in Portugal's port city of Sines over the next few years, marking one of the largest AI investment projects in Europe, it said on Tuesday.
The technology giant will work in partnership 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.
Start Campus, a venture between U.S. investment fund Davidson Kempner and Britain's Pioneer Point Partners, in April announced a plan to invest 8.5 billion euros ($9.9 billion) by 2030 in a data centre hub to serve growing demand from major tech and AI companies.
One of the planned six buildings is already in operation.
"By strengthening the national AI infrastructure through collaboration with Nscale, NVIDIA, 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.
Portugal has large investment projects lined up for Sines to produce green energy 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 and forming the backbone of the World Wide Web.
Investments in data centres, which help provide computing power for AI, have surged since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, as companies across sectors increasingly shift their operations to the cloud and integrate AI into their businesses.
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(Reporting by Sergio Goncalves, Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru. Editing by Andrei Khalip and Mark Potter)
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines programmed to think and learn. AI can perform tasks such as problem-solving, understanding language, and recognizing patterns.
A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It is essential for managing and processing large amounts of data.
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are specialized electronic circuits designed to accelerate the rendering of images and videos. They are also used in AI and machine learning for processing large datasets.
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over the internet, allowing users to access and store data and applications on remote servers instead of local computers.
An investment partnership is a business arrangement where multiple parties come together to pool their resources for investment purposes, sharing profits and losses according to their agreement.
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