{"id":256936,"date":"2025-11-11T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256936\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:31:07","slug":"microsoft-to-invest-10-billion-in-ai-data-hub-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256936\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in AI Data Hub in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Microsoft Corp. will spend $10 billion on an artificial intelligence data center along the Portuguese coast, marking one of its largest European investments this year, the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The amount is planned for a data center park in Sines, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Lisbon, that Microsoft is building out with Start Campus, a Portuguese developer, and British startup Nscale. Microsoft President Brad Smith first shared the funding plans with local newspaper Jornal de Neg\u00f3cios at the Web Summit in the Portuguese capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft Corp. will spend $10 billion on an artificial intelligence data center along the Portuguese coast, marking one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,6227,7724,73071,591,464,10182,59441,3517,1208,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-256936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-brad-smith","12":"tag-cloud-computing","13":"tag-coreweave-inc-cl-a","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-infrastructure","16":"tag-microsoft-corp","17":"tag-nebius-group-nv","18":"tag-portugal","19":"tag-startups","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}