Source: Cailian
Financial Associated Press, October 28 (Editor Zhao Hao)The latest news shows that Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom AG are preparing to build a data center worth 1 billion euros (about 1.16 billion US dollars) in Germany.
According to sources, NVIDIA and German Telecom will provide funding for the project as part of the two companies’ push to build more infrastructure in Europe to support AI systems.In addition, Europe’s largest software company, SAP SE, will become customers of the facility.
Informed sources say that German Telecom chief executive Tim Hertz, NVIDIA chief executive Zhang Rin, SAP chief executive Christian Klein and German Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and National Modernization Carlsten Wildberg are expected to announce the plan at an event in Berlin next month.
In recent months, European policymakers and tech executives have been discussing the need to build an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem in the region.In the United States alone, tech companies including Microsoft and Google have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to build AI computing.
Earlier this month, Huang Renxun said that the EU lags far behind China and the United States in AI investment. Despite this, Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom's planned € 1 billion data center still cannot compare with other "gigawatt-scale" projects around the world.
It is estimated that the German project will use approximately 10,000 advanced graphics processing units (GPUs). In comparison, a single data center developed in Texas by SoftBank Group, OpenAI and Oracle is expected to be equipped with approximately 500,000 GPUs.
Deutsche Telekom has also held talks with other companies to promote the construction of a "gigawatt factory", but progress has been slow.
In February this year, the European Commission announced a € 200 billion "Invest in Artificial Intelligence" initiative to support the development of AI technology in the region, with the goal of tripling computing power in the European region in the next five to seven years.
(Zhao Hao, Financial Associated Press)