Italy Gives €211 Million to Data Center Tech Firm 2D Photonics
THE SO WHAT
Italy writing a €211M check to 2D Photonics is another data point that AI infra is now industrial policy — photonics for data centers is being treated like national rail. Operators building around high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnects should start tracking which geographies are subsidizing their future vendors.
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