AI Boom Faces Copper Shortage and Tests French Tech Ambitions
The rapid expansion of the artificial intelligence sector is encountering a significant challenge due to a looming copper shortage. This issue, alongside France's €110bn AI boom, is testing President Macron's technological aspirations.
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France’s €110bn AI boom tests Macron’s tech ambitions
Investors warn approvals and local opposition could slow France’s massive data centre build-out
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Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris Lightmatter A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. Silicon Valley's AI infrastructure boom has created a surprisingly physical problem: there's only so much data you can push through copper wires before heat, distance, and power consumption become overwhelming. That's why investors, chipmakers, and cloud giants are suddenly paying close attention to photonics, using light in...
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