France pledges to build one gigawatt of new nuclear to speed up its AI ambitions

It's France's crook to get successful connected the AI boom. On Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron announced backstage investments into the country's AI ecosystem totaling €109 cardinal ($112.5 billion). The announcement came up of Paris hosting the AI Action Summit connected Monday and Tuesday. 

"I tin archer you this evening, Europe is going to velocity up, France is going to velocity up," Macron stated during a TV interrogation connected France 2 and India's First Post. He further explained that the concern is "exactly the equivalent for France of what the United States announced with Stargate — $500 billion — it’s the aforesaid ratio," erstwhile accounting for France's importantly smaller population. 

Today, France volition besides reportedly pledge a gigawatt of atomic powerfulness to make an AI computing project, the The Wall Street Journal reports. France has atomic powerfulness to spare, with 57 reactors successful 18 plants and exporting astir a 5th of the energy it produced past twelvemonth — despite utilizing atomic powerfulness for implicit two-thirds of its electricity. 

The project's lead, FluidStack, aims to commencement enactment successful the 3rd 4th of 2024. By the extremity of 2026, the extremity is to person 250 megawatts of powerfulness linked to AI-computing chips. Most of these chips are made by Nvidia, which FluidStack claims volition nonstop chips implicit erstwhile they request them. It besides states that there's imaginable to grow to a 10 gigawatt installation by 2030. 

The quality follows Macron and United Arab Emirates person Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan's February 6 announcement to enactment betwixt €30 cardinal and €50 cardinal ($31 cardinal to $51.6 million) towards a one-gigawatt AI center. 

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