The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that Quebec's Hypertec Inc. has announced a $5-billion program to build a series of data centres across Europe capable of powering two gigawatts of AI computing capacity. The Globe's Paul Waldie writes that Hypertec is partnering on the project with Montreal-based 5C Group, which it largely owns, and Together AI of San Francisco. The group expects to roll out the projects over the next three years, with Britain, France, Italy and Portugal as the priority markets. "We're in one of the largest revolutions today, possibly an unprecedented revolution with artificial intelligence," said Hypertec chief executive officer Simon Ahdoot, who announced the expansion on Thursday at the VivaTech trade show in Paris. Mr. Ahdoot said the $5-billion figure represents the cost of building two gigawatts of total capacity, which will be able to support up to 100,000 graphics processing units (GPUs), considered the backbone of AI processing. The money will come from a range of private investors as the projects progress. France has announced 109 billion euros ($171-billion) worth of investments in AI infrastructure and a 20-billion-euro project involving Brookfield Asset Management.