The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen Which water will you use to cool them? Which power will you use to run them? How will you mitigate the noise and heat stress towards nearby communities? Europeans don't want this shit.
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen i'd rather europe stayed a people, animals and plants continent
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@davidgerard how many pings you've got from this thread?
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@HennaVirkkunen Hei Henna; we will always remember the moment you sold out.
@Linza
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@HennaVirkkunen this is madness
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen Can you provide the detailed reasoning that goes from jumping on a speculative bubble bandwagon to strengthening sovereignty?
Also, how does this fit in the long-term goals to mitigate climate change?
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen Europe is literally burning and you want to make it worse?! You should be ashamed of yourselves!
This money should be invested into making a more livable Europe, not to inflate a bubble that only makes the richest richer! -
@HennaVirkkunen
Please read all of these comments and wake up from your bubble dreams. Seriously.We so not need this. We need, collectively, clean air, clean water, clean energy, clean food.
Invest to to saving the planet, not destroying it even faster, and invest to more trees, cooling the cities that are BURNING, making sure people can grow food locally, and bettering public services in EU countries.
Also prioritize fighting the clear rise of facism.
We beg of you.@hiisikoloart
Don't beg, start looking how you can organise people around you or join an org. -
The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen how much more tone-deaf can this get, in the middle of climate crisis-fueled fires, deaths and destruction..? Nobody needs this.
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@bjoreman Imagine if they invested our tax money in the fight against climate crisis ... or only for the firefighters risking their life against wildfires, not having enough material to do their work! @HennaVirkkunen
@NatureMC @HennaVirkkunen Indeed. I’m also curious if any actual money has been committed by anyone, that seems to be a bit rare when it comes to big AI announcements.
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen with all due respect, but you are misinformed and misguided here. EU citizens do not want this and the AI bandwagon is already falling apart. The energy use is downright insane, the business case even worse. This is a waste of public money that could have helped the EU become energy independent and fight climate change.
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen This is a really bad idea.
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen Insane waste of time, money, and resources. So many actual good things that could be done instead...
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen And how will you explain to your children and grandchildren that there is no more water for them to drink?
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen Just imagine investing this amount of money in green energy instead…
Large parts of Europe are on fire - that is what needs immediate action. A gigafactory will hurt the environment massively.
The AI bubble will pop before any of these gigafactories are built. In the meantime all this money is wasted on far, far overpriced components.
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen This is insane. The damage to privacy and the environment is appalling. How on earth can we get to net zero when you wipe out (and more) in one fell swoop all we've tried to combat the #climateemergency
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@HennaVirkkunen what is meant by "AI"? Is it any technology under the AI umbrella or is it just spicy autocomplete aka LLMs?
@Laust @HennaVirkkunen From the details in the call, the definition is based on using a huge number of GPUs that are "equivalent" to NVIDIA's H100 chips:
c. Compute Performance Capacity
To qualify as an AIGF, the computational scale must at least reach three to four times the
number of advanced processors currently available in the most powerful AI Factories10 across
both deployment phases, depending on the targeted Lot:
• Compute Performance Capacity
o Lot 1 - Medium-Scale: The facility must deploy a minimum capacity of 25,000
(H100-equivalent) of the latest state-of-the-art AI advanced chips by Phase 1.
To qualify as a full-scale AIGF, the proposal must include a binding roadmap to
reach a total minimum capacity of at least 75,000 (H100-equivalent) of the latest
state-of-the-art AI chips in Phase 2. This element will be assessed in the
eligibility section.
o Lot 2 - Large-Scale: The facility must deploy a minimum capacity of 40,000
(H100-equivalent) of the latest state-of-the-art AI advanced chips by Phase 1.
To qualify as a massive full-scale AIGF, the proposal must include a binding
roadmap to reach a total minimum capacity of at least 100,000 (H100-equivalent) of latest state-of-the-art AI chips in Phase 2.Utterly criminal use of public money to accelerate climate change.
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@Laust @HennaVirkkunen From the details in the call, the definition is based on using a huge number of GPUs that are "equivalent" to NVIDIA's H100 chips:
c. Compute Performance Capacity
To qualify as an AIGF, the computational scale must at least reach three to four times the
number of advanced processors currently available in the most powerful AI Factories10 across
both deployment phases, depending on the targeted Lot:
• Compute Performance Capacity
o Lot 1 - Medium-Scale: The facility must deploy a minimum capacity of 25,000
(H100-equivalent) of the latest state-of-the-art AI advanced chips by Phase 1.
To qualify as a full-scale AIGF, the proposal must include a binding roadmap to
reach a total minimum capacity of at least 75,000 (H100-equivalent) of the latest
state-of-the-art AI chips in Phase 2. This element will be assessed in the
eligibility section.
o Lot 2 - Large-Scale: The facility must deploy a minimum capacity of 40,000
(H100-equivalent) of the latest state-of-the-art AI advanced chips by Phase 1.
To qualify as a massive full-scale AIGF, the proposal must include a binding
roadmap to reach a total minimum capacity of at least 100,000 (H100-equivalent) of latest state-of-the-art AI chips in Phase 2.Utterly criminal use of public money to accelerate climate change.
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.I want to applaud @HennaVirkkunen for posting here on what the EC is up to, even if many in the Fediverse are opposed to it. Like this AI Gigafactories plan.
Democracies only work if there are places where people can speak their minds and governments hear what they say. Without the potential manipulation of a self-interested commercial party in the middle.
Maybe the Fediverse can become such a place as European tech sovereignty projects progress and (hopefully!) more EU citizens participate.
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.
Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.
I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.
This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.@HennaVirkkunen I have a lot of things to say and all of them would get me arrested, so use your imagination.
