CSC and local energy company Loiste have signed an agreement to channel waste heat from the LUMI AI Factory — Europe’s largest AI supercomputer facility, under construction in Kajaani — into the city’s district heating network from 2027. The deal extends a model already in use for the existing LUMI supercomputer, which has supplied roughly a fifth of the city’s district heat since 2021.
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Finnish cloud startup Verda says it is already profitable. That alone sets it apart from most of its rivals.
K-Supermarket has piloted a talking digital display in three Finnish shopping centres, allowing passersby to hold spoken conversations with an animated character and receive personalised recipe suggestions without touching the screen.
Most Finnish businesses know the last part of the EU AI Act is coming. Far fewer know what it actually means for them — which risk category their solution falls into, what that demands in practice, or where to find reliable guidance without wading through hundreds of pages of regulation.
Four in five active users adopted artificial intelligence within the past three years, yet fewer than one in four can identify the EU’s main AI law — a gap that researchers warn could expose businesses to unforeseen legal risk.
By the time your organisation has finally settled the question of whether it needs an AI strategy, your employees have in all likelihood already built one. It may not be quite the one you had in mind — and unlike the official version, theirs is already running.
Three major studies expose a widening gap between AI investment and business impact across Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, raising questions about whether the region risks inflating an AI value bubble.
A first-of-its-kind study commissioned by CSC – IT Center for Science found that Finnish companies using high-performance computing services, including the LUMI supercomputer, achieved returns of 11 to 20 times their investment, as business use of the infrastructure doubles year on year.
The Amsterdam-based AI infrastructure firm, rebuilt from the remnants of Russia’s Yandex, has announced its largest European project as it races to deploy more than 3 gigawatts of computing capacity by the end of 2026. Nebius plans €8.5 billion data Centre in Lappeenranta, Finland.
