Carbon removal technologies are becoming increasingly important for companies, particularly for tech giants locked in a fierce battle to become the leader in artificial intelligence.
Microsoft has not seen significant use of artificial intelligence in the European Parliamentary elections for creating disinformation campaigns, the company's president told Reuters in an interview. Brad Smith was in Stockholm to announce Microsoft's plan to invest 33.7 billion Swedish crowns ($3.21 billion) to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden over a two-year period. "We have to recognise the risks that AI can create in the context of creating abusive content and one form of abusive content would be AI generated deep fakes," Smith said.
Alphabet's Google said on Monday the completion of its data centre and cloud facilities expansion in Singapore meant it had invested $5 billion in its technical infrastructure in the Southeast Asian nation. The company said its data centres in Singapore employ over 500 people and are used to power services such as Google Search and Maps. Last week, Google said it would invest $2 billion in Malaysia to develop its first data centre in the country.