France taps nuclear power for new AI training cluster
Live MintFrance is making a bid to catch up in the artificial intelligence race by leaning on one of its strengths: plentiful nuclear power. Combined with another newly announced French AI project funded by Middle Eastern investors that also aims for gigawatt scale, the plans would greatly expand Europe’s AI-computing capabilities to rival a vast expansion in the U.S. AI computing requires vast amounts of power as big tech companies shell out billions of dollars to build massive clusters of electricity-hungry chips. AI-computing companies such as CoreWeave have pioneered new financing vehicles secured by Nvidia’s chips and contracts with AI developers to raise billions of dollars for new data centers, something FluidStack said it plans to do as well. Photo: John MacDougall/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The AI project furthers a longtime push from French President Emmanuel Macron, who has sought to expand France’s AI computing power.
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