On November 12, according to the Wall Street Journal,Google and Microsoft said they would invest more than $16 billion (approximately 113.9 billion yuan) in Europe to expand AI infrastructure.This is the latest spending commitment made by U.S. technology giants to increase overseas AI computing power.
Note: Microsoft President Smith announces investment plan
Microsoft said it will invest more than $10 billion starting early next year.Construction of a data center hub in Sines, a city in southwestern Portugal. Microsoft is working with Nvidia, British AI infrastructure startup Nscale Global Holdings, and data center builder Start Campus to develop the project. The companies plan to deploy approximately 12,600 Nvidia GB300 GPUs at the hub.
Microsoft said this will be its largest investment in Portugal.It is also one of the largest investment projects in the field of AI computing power in Europe.Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith announced the investment plan at the Web Summit, a technology event held in Lisbon, Portugal.
At the same time, Google said it will invest 5.5 billion euros (approximately $6.36 billion) in Germany by 2029 to expand its AI infrastructure and offices. Google said the investment will cover a new data center in Dietzenbach, existing data center facilities in Hanau, and office expansion projects in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.
These new investment news are the latest investment commitments made by US companies to meet the growing demand for AI services and expand their business overseas. Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the public at the end of 2022, triggering a global AI investment boom, technology giants have committed billions of dollars in Europe to strengthen data centers, cloud services and AI infrastructure.
Last week, Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom announced that they would build one of Europe's largest AI factories in Germany under a 1 billion euro cooperation agreement reached between the two parties.Just a few days ago, Amazon also said that it will invest more than 1.4 billion euros in the Netherlands in the next three years to strengthen the company's local cloud computing and retail business.