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Data is taking on new meaning amidst rising data centre demands driven by #AI. At #HWIDI 2024 in Berlin, Peter Zhou, Huawei's President of Data Storage, outlined his vision for the future of the storage market in the AI era.  He underscored #Huawei's focus on two core concepts: cost efficiency and sustainability. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d_Fd5ZWg

There are few constants as the centres of navigates its way through shifting centres of gravity converging around #AI. I always though remember these wise words from Chancellor Angela Merkel to Lionel Barber Financial Times in the final year of as Chancellor. "Our entire cultural work on legislation, the centuries-long development to achieve what we now regard as our constitution or principles, must now be translated to the digital world, too. That’s why we are at a very crucial point of our development." https://lnkd.in/e6V_G6eZ

Driven by exploding AI demand, countries in Asia and across the world are racing to build data centers -- but the facilities are not only power-hungry, they are also thirsty. https://lnkd.in/gwHCwcMz

There are few constants as the centres of navigates its way through shifting centres of gravity converging around #AI. I always though remember these wise words from Chancellor Angela Merkel to Lionel Barber Financial Times in the final year of as Chancellor. "Our entire cultural work on legislation, the centuries-long development to achieve what we now regard as our constitution or principles, must now be translated to the digital world, too. That’s why we are at a very crucial point of our development." https://lnkd.in/eK2xnneg

Did you know the NLC launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisory Committee to help leaders understand the opportunity behind this evolving tech? This Thursday, Aug. 8 at 2 PM ET, you're invited to join the NLC and AAAS for a virtual program on the many types of AI technologies. Learn about which AI types are used for which tasks in local government and the various benefits and risks each type of technology poses when used in the public sector. Learn more and register now at https://bit.ly/3LQhexh.

🇪🇺Europe is on the verge of allocating billions to AI industrial policy. IIPP's Dr. Cecilia Rikap & Francesca Bria contributed to the latest report by the AI Now Institute which sets out to provide EU policymakers with policy research, perspectives, and evidence about the challenges of expanding public investment in a highly concentrated global AI market. As Europe ponders pouring billions of public funds into AI, this collection attempts to reorient the EU’s industrial policy away from its current trajectory of further entrenching big tech's dominance in the market––and outlines alternative pathways forward. 🔗Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/eh5cFdHW

Now more than ever, Europe needs its own model of digital strategic autonomy, starting with the development of a #EuroStack, federated digital infrastructures governed in the public interest. We need a new push for digital independence in Europe, moving from urgency to agency. My article on a public interest digital industrial policy and the need of a #EuroStack 👇

🇪🇺Europe is on the verge of allocating billions to AI industrial policy. IIPP's Dr. Cecilia Rikap & Francesca Bria contributed to the latest report by the AI Now Institute which sets out to provide EU policymakers with policy research, perspectives, and evidence about the challenges of expanding public investment in a highly concentrated global AI market. As Europe ponders pouring billions of public funds into AI, this collection attempts to reorient the EU’s industrial policy away from its current trajectory of further entrenching big tech's dominance in the market––and outlines alternative pathways forward. 🔗Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/eh5cFdHW

France is aiming to become a global AI superpower

France is aiming to become a global AI superpower