Nvidia chief Jensen Huang said Europe’s shortfall in computing power for artificial intelligence “will be resolved” soon, as the continent pushes to catch up with the US and China in the race to capitalise on the fast-developing technology.
At least 20 AI data centres are planned across Europe in the next few years, Huang said at the VivaTech conference in Paris on Wednesday, as he predicted a tenfold increase in the region’s data centre capacity within the next two years.
This will include five “gigafactories” — sites carrying hundreds of thousands of Nvidia’s powerful graphics processing units, the chips needed to train and run large language models.