French artificial intelligence (AI) company Mistral has raised $830 million (€750 million) to build a new data centre near Paris. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The data centre, near Bruyères-le-Châtel, a commune south of Paris, is being built to run on over 13,000 NVIDIA chips. The chips will be used to train Mistral’s AI model and bring its compute power up to 44 megawatts (MW). That is roughly one and a half times more power than a conventional data centre, according to estimates from the