法国人工智能基础设施公司 Sesterce 计划在芬兰中部的 Jämsä 市，投资超过 100 亿欧元建设一座人工智能数据中心园区。该数据中心将建在原造纸厂的旧址上。
French AI infrastructure company Sesterce plans to invest more than €10bn in an AI data centre campus at a former paper mill in Jämsä, central Finland.
Sesterce 公司宣布，该项目将选址 Kaipola 地区——UPM 公司已于 2021 年初关闭了那里的造纸厂。首期建设将建设一座容量为 200 兆瓦（MW）的数据中心，预计今年开工建设；二期建设将把总容量提升至 600 兆瓦。
The campus will be located on the Kaipola site, where UPM shut down its paper mill in early 2021, Sesterce announced. Building work on the first phase, with 200 megawatts (MW) of capacity, is due to start this year. A second phase would raise that to 600MW.
Sesterce 的目标是根据市场需求，在芬兰现有的工业用地上逐步建设更多人工智能设施，最终实现超过 1 吉瓦（GW）的运算能力。
Over time, Sesterce aims to build more than one gigawatt of AI capacity in Finland on existing industrial sites, in line with demand.
“Kaipola 造纸厂曾为全球生产纸张长达六十多年。如今，这个旧址将迎来新一代的工业发展。我们的目标是在充分利用现有基础设施（包括电网、供水系统、建筑以及物流设施）的同时，保留该地区的工业特色。”Sesterce 的首席执行官 Youssef El Manssouri 如是说。
“For more than six decades, the Kaipola mill produced paper for the world. Now, a new generation of industry is being planned for the site. Our goal is to preserve the area’s industrial identity while making use of existing infrastructure, including the power grid, water systems, buildings and logistics connections,” says Youssef El Manssouri, CEO of Sesterce.
该公司预计在建设期间创造约 2,000 个就业机会，数据中心正式运营后还将提供约 300 个长期职位，并计划主要雇佣芬兰本地承包商。
Sesterce expects to create around 2,000 jobs during construction and about 300 permanent jobs once the campus is operating. The company said it plans to hire mostly Finnish contractors.
在未来十年内，Sesterce 计划为每消耗 1 兆瓦电力，就向电网新增 1 兆瓦的可再生能源。此外，该公司还将设立一个 1,000 万欧元的基金，用于支持当地项目的发展。
Over the next ten years, it aims to add one megawatt of new renewable energy to the grid for every megawatt the campus uses. Sesterce will also set up a €10 million fund to support local projects.
该地块目前由 Kaipola Green Port 公司持有（该公司于 2021 年从 UPM 公司手中购得该地块）。Kaipola Green Port 的董事长 Martti Inkovaara 告诉 Yle 新闻媒体，将整个地块出售给 Sesterce 的谈判正在进行中。
Kaipola Green Port owns the site, having purchased it from UPM in 2021. Board chair Martti Inkovaara told Yle that negotiations to sell the entire site to Sesterce are well underway.
当地官员对这一计划表示欢迎，但他们指出仍需获得相关许可才能正式开工建设。
Local officials have welcomed the plan, but they noted that permits are still required.
“Jämsä 需要新的投资、商业活动以及就业机会。如果 Sesterce 的项目能够从规划阶段顺利落地并满足所有相关要求，那么它将是一个提升该地区活力的重要机会。”Jämsä 市市长 Jori Reijula 说道。
“Jämsä needs new investments, business activity and jobs. The Sesterce project is an interesting opportunity to strengthen the vitality of the region, provided it progresses from plans to implementation and meets the applicable requirements,” says Jori Reijula, the Mayor of Jämsä.
该项目延续了芬兰其他大型人工智能投资趋势。谷歌曾在9月份表示，计划于2027年和2028年在该国投入130亿欧元用于人工智能基础设施。
The project follows other large AI investments in Finland. Google said in September it would spend €13bn on AI infrastructure there in 2027 and 2028.
然而本周，一家芬兰监管机构已命令谷歌停止在两个规划地点进行森林清理。Nebius公司也计划在曼策莱（Mäntsälä）建设第二个数据中心。
This week, however, a Finnish regulator ordered Google to stop clearing forest at two planned sites. Nebius is also building a second data centre in Mäntsälä.
这并非Sesterce公司的首个大型项目。今年6月，该公司与软银集团达成协议，将在法国北部的博斯克尔（Bosquel）共同开发一个1吉瓦的人工智能园区。
Finland is not Sesterce’s first large project. In June, the company and SoftBank Group agreed to develop a 1GW AI campus in Bosquel, northern France.