UAE To Invest Up To €50 Billion in Major AI Data Centre in France - 1

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UAE To Invest Up To €50 Billion in Major AI Data Centre in France

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

France and the United Arab Emirates announced a partnership on Thursday to develop a 1-gigawatt data center in France dedicated to artificial intelligence technologies.

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  • France and the UAE will build a 1-gigawatt data center in France which will cost from 30 to 50 billion euros.
  • The new AI campus will be located in France and will become the largest AI data center in Europe.
  • The French government already identified 35 possible locations for the new data centers.

According to France 24 , President Emmanuel Macron said the new AI campus—part of a larger agreement he reached with President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Paris—”represents investments of 30 to 50 billion euros” and will become the largest AI data center in Europe.

The new data center will store data and produce the large amounts of energy required to develop the advanced technology.

The announcement was made just days before the upcoming Summit for Action on AI, on February 10 and 11, where global leaders will gather in Paris to discuss the impact of AI in society. France and the European Union will face American and Chinese leaders in the industry.

The new agreement between France and the UAE is expected to help both nations stay on top of AI developments. According to Reuters , the governments said the investments will be made in French and Emirati AI and will include talent development, the acquisition of advanced AI chips, cloud infrastructures, virtual data embassies, and data centers.

France also announced that they have already identified 35 locations where they could host the AI data centers.

“The two leaders expressed their desire to create a strategic partnership in the field of AI and committed to exploring collaborations on projects and investments supporting the development of the AI value chain,” was written in a Franco-Emirati public statement according to Reuters.

The European Commission recently published guidelines to educate stakeholders on best practices and prohibited uses of AI , as defined by the European Union’s AI Act, expected to be discussed at the Summit.

France and the UAE are not the only countries building new centers for AI technology in 2025. The United States, along with other companies including OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, announced a $500 billion project called Stargate to build infrastructure to develop advanced AI technologies in the United States.

Meta Launches Language Technology Partner Program to Advance AI Translation - 2

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Meta Launches Language Technology Partner Program to Advance AI Translation

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

Meta announced today its Language Technology Partner Program in collaboration with UNESCO, aimed at gathering audio and text from a variety of languages to enhance and develop AI translation models.

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  • Meta, in collaboration with UNESCO, launched the Language Technology Partner Program to enhance AI translation models.
  • The initiative focuses on underserved languages, and worldwide organizations are invited to join.
  • Partners are expected to provide over 10 hours of audio and transcription, and long texts in the language to train AI models.

The Language Technology Partner Program focuses on underresourced languages to support UNESCO’s global initiative, the International Decade of Indigenous Languages —created to raise awareness and protect Indigenous languages worldwide.

The tech giant also shared an open invitation for more people and organizations to join the program. Meta expects new partners to contribute with speech recordings with transcriptions—of over 10 hours—and large texts with more than 200 sentences.

“Our work with UNESCO to expand the support of underserved languages in AI models is an essential part of this effort,” states the announcement shared by Meta. “Developing models that are able to work on multilingual problems and in underserved languages not only promotes linguistic diversity and inclusivity in the digital world, but also helps us create intelligent systems that can adapt to new situations and learn from experience.”

In exchange, the partners who join the program will receive technical workshops from Meta’s research teams. The Canadian government of Nunavut has already agreed to collaborate by providing data in the Inuit languages Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun.

Meta also announced an open-source machine translation benchmark, allowing other companies and AI developers to test their translation models.

Spain recently announced an open-source AI model called Alia , which has been trained in Castilian, and the co-official languages in the country: Catalan, Basque, Galician, and Valencian.