New York-based investor Brookfield Asset Management plans to invest $10bn in AI infrastructure in Sweden. The centrepiece will be an AI data centre in Strängnäs, about 20km west of Stockholm.…

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, this week launched an AI powered collision detection system powered by Presien. The Leica Xsight360 system detects people or objects nearby and alerts the operator,…

Scaffolding and formwork specialist Doka is to use AI to automate the counting and identification of materials. The system uses Microsoft technology to analyse photographs of returned materials, rather than…

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (SCMC) is to build its first European research, development and design centre near Munich, the Taipei Times reports. The company said the facility would improve…

UK construction tech company Automated Architecture (Auar) has secured £5.1m in new funding to commercialise its robotic “pop-up micro-factory” system, in which a robotic arm equipped with machine vision and…

As builders and homeowners in Los Angeles worry about President Trump’s tariffs raising the costs of rebuilding after the wildfires, they can take some comfort in California’s new high-tech approach…

Generative AI is the tech buzzword of the decade; American Big Tech firms alone announced an investment of $300bn in AI infrastructure. A year earlier, global venture capital investment into…

Spanish entrepreneur Javier Romero has signed an agreement with a Chinese tech company to develop Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga, southern Spain, news agency Xinhua reports.  The deal was…

Israeli tech firm RodRadar and Sitech Deutschland have joined forces to market a product that uses radar and AI technology embedded in excavation equipment to prevent cable and pipeline strikes…

London-based architect Studio Tim Fu has won a contract to design the 22,000-sq-m Lake Bled Estate in Slovenia, which it describes as the world’s “first fully AI-driven architectural project”. The…

Apple has announced plans to spend $500bn across 50 US states over the next four years building data centres, corporate facilities, manufacturing spaces and television production studios. It will build…

Artificial intelligence (AI) can speed up many processes in construction, from design and scheduling to contract and risk management, but it won’t lead to any across-the-board productivity gains as long…

Emmanuel Macron said his government will try to attract €109bn of private investment in AI, the Financial Times reports. Speaking ahead of France’s AI Action Summit that opens in Paris…

France’s Bouygues has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to its construction operations. The aim is to bring cloud computing to Equans, Bouygues’ electrical…

Microsoft has paused construction work for its planned second phase of a data centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Racine County, Wisconsin. The company said in an…

Swiss energy company Edisun has announced plans to build a 941MW solar park northwest of Madrid to provide power for AI datacentres. The Fuencarral project is intended to meet the…

Google will buy nuclear energy from small modular reactors (SMRs) built and run by California’s Kairos Power as the internet giant races to secure enough clean electricity to power artificial…

Oracle is planning to use three small modular reactors (SMRs) to power a 1GW datacentre, according to founder Larry Ellison. He told investors and analysts in an earnings call this…