Spain Approves €719 Million AI Super Factory Project

en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Spanish government has approved an investment of €719 million to build an advanced artificial intelligence super factory, operated through the newly established Spanish Technology Transformation Company (SETT), aiming to participate in the next round of bidding for the European Commission's InvestAI initiative.

The AI super factory is an optimized macro infrastructure designed to house and cool hundreds of thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs) working in parallel, specifically handling the billions of parameters required for machine vision and predictive AI models. The project adopts a multi-site model, with main facilities located in La Morera de Montsant, Tarragona, and San Fernando de Henares, Madrid.

This infrastructure aims to provide Spanish businesses and research centers with an independent computing environment, protected by EU security and privacy regulations. Minister of Digital Transformation and Public Function Óscar López stated that the project will have multiple impacts: accelerating access to advanced computing capabilities for small and medium-sized enterprises and startups; managing the development of public services within national borders, reducing data breach risks; and creating high-skilled jobs in fields including data engineering, cybersecurity, and low-latency fiber optic network technology.

Spain already has a foundation in AI supercomputing, with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) equipped with the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer, and facilities like the Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA) forming an important part of the European EuroHPC network. However, the scale of the €719 million investment still lags significantly behind the annual capital budgets of over $10 billion for US tech giants like Google (Gemini) or Anthropic (Claude).

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