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The megaprojects of the intelligence age: gigawatt campuses, sovereign compute, orbital data centres, and the money and power behind the race to superintelligence.

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Seven Bets on a Budget Nobody Has Passed

Europe has put up to seven AI gigafactories out to tender, at €30 billion-plus, with 100,000 chips apiece at the largest sites. Only €1 billion of the EU's own money is legally committed. The rest waits on a budget that does not exist yet.

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Before the megaprojects

Earlier analysis from before our current focus. Kept online for reference, no longer updated.