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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.
The International Monetary Fund on Oct 13 sharply raised its forecast for Taiwan’s 2026 real GDP growth to 10.7 percent, crediting a concentrated global AI hardware boom that has propelled semiconductor and related exports. The upgrade lifts Taiwan to the top of Asia Pacific growth rankings but also raises questions about inflation, supply chain concentration and the need to spread AI gains across the economy.
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.