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Telegram channel to stay up to date with all the news and events of the Runet.Nebius (former owner of Yandex) has opened a computing cluster in Paris, focused on solving problems in the field of artificial intelligence and built on Nvidia graphics processors. The company already has a data center in Finland. The company's total investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure in Europe will amount to $1 billion.

Nebius (formerly Yandex) has announced the opening of a GPU (graphics processing unit) computing cluster for artificial intelligence (AI) in Paris, France. The cluster will run on Nvidia hardware.

The new cluster from Nebius will be one of the first in Europe to be equipped with Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU processors. And in 2025, Nebius will also be among the first to offer its customers access to the Nvidia Blackwell platform.

Nebius already has a data center in Finland (Mantsala), which also provides AI hong kong whatsapp number list computing, recalled the company's founder and CEO Arkady Volozh. The cluster in Paris will strengthen Nebius's position in the field of AI infrastructure.

In total, Nebius intends to invest $1 billion in AI computing infrastructure in Europe by mid-2025. Of this amount, $200 million has already been invested since the beginning of the year. Nebius plans to expand its data center capacity in Europe, as well as open two new data centers in Europe.

Historically, Yandex was the owner of the Russian Yandex. In 2011, the company held an IPO (initial public offering) on the American Nasdaq stock exchange, and later the company entered the Moscow Exchange.

In 2022, Nasdaq suspended trading in Yandex shares. At the same time, the European Union imposed sanctions on Yandex CEO and majority owner Arkady Volozh and Tigran Khudoverdyan, who was then the company's chief operating officer. Both subsequently resigned from their positions at the company. The family trust that manages Volozh's stake in Yandex decided not to accept his instructions on how to vote with the stake.

At the end of 2022, Yandex decided to leave Russia. In 2023, the Nasdaq administration approved a restructuring scheme for the company, according to which, after leaving Russia, the company will be able to return to listing on Nasdaq.