16 result(s) for “AI infrastructure”
Sesterce, a French AI infrastructure company, announced plans for a multibillion euro AI campus at a former paper mill in Jamsa, Finland, and reiterated wider plans to grow AI compute capacity including projects in France. The move highlights how French AI firms are investing overseas to secure energy and scale while advancing domestic capacity building.
Microsoft announced plans to scale its custom Azure Maia accelerators to multi-gigawatt data center deployments and introduced Maia 300, a third generation inference system built for long context, latency sensitive and agentic AI workloads. The move signals a larger industry shift toward in house silicon and raises questions about cloud economics, power demand and vendor relationships.
New Delhi is preparing to allow companies empanelled under the IndiaAI Mission to offer GPU compute commercially to overseas customers, as officials seek to monetise excess capacity while expanding India as an AI compute hub.
Finland’s licensing and supervision authority has told Tuike Finland, the local company linked to Google’s €13 billion AI infrastructure programme, to suspend preparatory work at Muhos and Kajaani while environmental impact assessments are completed and questions about large-scale forest clearance are examined.
On October 7, 2026, several Greek academic institutions published new initiatives aimed at training students and the public in ethical, governance and policy dimensions of artificial intelligence. The moves signal a shift in Greece toward preparing a workforce and citizenry to shape how AI is regulated and deployed across the economy.
US stocks advanced toward fresh records as investors looked beyond inflation and geopolitical risks, with easing oil prices, lower Treasury yields and expectations for strong corporate earnings supporting Wall Street.
Huawei and Qualcomm announced a multiyear cross license and patent purchase agreement on October 5, 2026. The deal covers 5G, compute, networking and artificial intelligence technologies, and marks a notable commercial rapprochement with implications for Chinese AI infrastructure and chip ecosystems.
Toshiba has brought new nearline hard disk drive lines online at its Laguna, Philippines campus and is investing roughly JPY 60 billion to nearly double its storage output by fiscal 2027, a move aimed at meeting rapid growth in AI and cloud data centre storage needs.
Micron reported record fiscal fourth quarter revenue and profit and issued guidance well above Street estimates, underpinning a fresh wave of optimism for U.S. memory suppliers and prompting broader market reassessments of inflation and rate odds.
Direct Drive Tech, a Beijing robotics and actuator specialist, began trading in Hong Kong on September 29, 2026, after an IPO that brought state affiliated cornerstone investors and a premium valuation. The offering highlights investor appetite for China’s robotics and embodied AI ambitions, while raising questions about earnings quality and liquidity.
Amazon Web Services stages a Public Sector AI Symposium in Ottawa today, September 29, 2026, highlighting Canadian AI adoption in government, data sovereignty concerns, and the announcement of Canada recipients of the AWS Imagine Grant for nonprofits.
A new poll and a wave of local actions are forcing Canadian and provincial leaders to reckon with community resistance to large AI data centre projects in Alberta, complicating Ottawa and Edmonton’s strategy to attract hyperscalers and build domestic AI capacity.
At the fifth Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, Chinese officials and companies framed artificial intelligence as a commercial engine for cross border services, releasing a major digital trade report and staging demonstrations meant to move AI from labs into paying markets.
Global markets are confronting a difficult combination of oil above $100 a barrel, rising government bond yields and tighter monetary policy, raising fresh concerns that economies could face persistent inflation alongside weaker growth.
Billions flowing into AI chips, data centres and infrastructure are supporting growth and markets, but higher energy prices, borrowing costs and scrutiny of returns are putting the investment boom under a brighter spotlight.