Supermarket Billionaire Wants to Build Al Gigafactory in Europe (www.bloomberg.com)

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[-] byzxor@beehaw.org 16 points 2 weeks ago

Love to see investing in Europe tech to decouple from the US.

Hate to see it's for AI/LLMs.

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

Would hate to see it only for AI/LLMs, but it can still be also for AI/LLMs which would be loads better than except for AI/LLMs.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

"Gigafactory" there is nothing giga about a big factory but to stroke Musks and now this Billionaires tiny wiener... I mean big ego.

[-] lihmalahmalehma@suppo.fi 9 points 2 weeks ago

Tesla marketing term 🤡

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago

The Schwarz Group, Germany’s largest retailer and owner of supermarket chain Lidl, is planning to pitch the government to be the lead developer of a major data center central to Europe’s artificial intelligence efforts.

The privately held retailer, which is controlled by billionaire founder Dieter Schwarz, will present its plan to spend billions of euros on Friday, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations.

Somehow when I read Supermarket Billionaire I thought of Jeff Bezos. When i read AI Gigafactory after that, I thought of Elon Musk. But no, it's the Lidl dude. Maybe because our billionaires arent in the news as often?

[-] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah the Lidl guy flies under the radar compared to the Musks and Bezoses of the world. But having a European company build AI infastructure is actually huge for tech sovereignty - means less dependence on US/China for critical tech. Better for data privacy and security too.

[-] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm, not gonna buy Lidl then.

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