PPC assess market conditions for the AI ​​gigafactory

The authorities and PPC are trying to familiarize the marketplace with the connection to make successful Western Macedonia 1 of the 5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) gigafactories planned successful Europe, within the model of a applicable inaugural by the European Commission.

The PPC connection was presented astatine an lawsuit organized by the Deputy Prime Minister, Kostis Hatzidakis, and attended by the Minister of Digital Governance and Artificial Intelligence, Dimitris Papastergiou, different members of the authorities and representatives from the shipping, pharmaceutical, tourism, banking and infrastructure markets.

The purpose of the event, among different things, was to mobilize the marketplace successful bid to measure its needs successful AI infrastructure.

EU plan

PPC has submitted a connection to the EU for the operation of a elephantine information center, designed and optimized specifically for the needs of Artificial Intelligence.

This is an concern of astir 3-5 cardinal euros (each of elephantine AI factories) with the EU having announced that a total of 20 cardinal euros will beryllium mobilised for them, portion of the 200 cardinal euro magnitude that will beryllium invested successful AI, successful bid for Europe to get its ain captious infrastructure.

The EU has lagged down the USA and China, countries successful which their technological giants (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei) person already invested successful these infrastructures.

The largest portion of the funds that will beryllium allocated for the gigafactories will travel from the backstage assemblage (at slightest 65%). In addition, the EU has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF) for the improvement of AI gigafactories.

A total of 76 entities from 16 countries person submitted expressions of involvement for the instauration of gigafactories, which means that the contention is strong. Interested parties see ample European companies from the information center, telecommunications, vigor markets, arsenic well arsenic investors. The process is successful its archetypal stage. The submission of binding proposals is scheduled for the extremity of 2025.

Regardless of the destiny of the connection to the EU, PPC plans to proceed with the instauration of information centers successful Western Macedonia successful the erstwhile lignite areas and for this intent is besides looking for partners from technology giants that run ample unreality and information halfway infrastructures, susceptible of massively scaling, depending connected demand.