Anduril Industries announced Arsenal-2, a new $3.7 billion shipyard bound for Tradepoint Atlantic. France-based AI infrastructure company Sesterce has announced plans for an over $11 million data center campus revitalization of a former paper mill in central Finland. Advanced Navigation America announced it would establish its U.S. headquarters and a major manufacturing node in Huntsville.
ACME Group invests over $4 billion in Oman. GSK establishes a global R&D center at Cambridge Biomedical Campus. A former chemical plant in Spain will be transformed into a data center. Two South Korean cities see semiconductor manufacturing grow.
A Mississippi State University Choctaw Preview Day in April 2022 ended with stickball practice at The Junction in the heart of the MSU campus in Starkville. CREDIT: Photo by Michaela Parker courtesy of MSU Extension Service
Last week the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians announced it recently was awarded more than $12 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), primarily to support the development of a 200-acre-plus business park for industrial tenants on MBCI Tribal lands. A total of $10.7 million will fund roadway, water, sewer and stormwater construction. A $1.9 million grant will support the completion of the Tribe’s Workforce Training Center, currently under construction, and the installation of specialized equipment for HVACR, electrical, welding, and industrial controls. Plans are to hold a groundbreaking on the site in 2027.
“We have run out of industrial property, and this investment gives us the infrastructure to bring industry to Choctaw lands and create jobs for our community,” said Tribal Chief Cyrus Ben. “With our recently opened education facilities and ongoing job training programs, we are putting the pieces together to fulfill our goal of self-determination.”
We talk to Deputy Governor and Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter about TNECD’s superior performance.
When Multiverse completed the acquisition of StackFuel, Germany’s leading provider of data and AI training, earlier this year, the two companies set an immediate goal to train 100,000 German workers in AI skills. Pictured here left to right are StackFuel Co-Founder and CTO Stefan Berntheisel, Multiverse Founder and CEO Euan Blair and StackFuel Co-Founder and CEO Leo Marose.
Coursera has released its annual Global Skills Report (GSR), which this year features a new AI-Human Skills Synergy Index rating 98 countries. “Twenty-five of the 31 European countries examined for the report sit in the top half of the Synergy Index, which is led by Germany and France,” the report says, while other top countries in the “Leading” tier of the ranking include Japan (3rd) and Korea (4th), the United Arab Emirates (6th), the United States (8th) and Singapore (10th). The “Competitive” tier is populated by major Asia-Pacific economies including Indonesia (29th), Malaysia (36th), and India (40th).
Photo by Mark Draper courtesy of the National Park Service
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This long-exposure night photograph made by Mark Draper at Pipe Spring National Monument in northern Arizona in 2019 shows concentric star trails circling Polaris behind a traditional Indigenous brush-and-pole wickiup. Pipe Spring is located within the boundaries of the Kaibab Band of Paiute reservation. “Ancestral Puebloans, Kaibab Paiutes and members of the Mormon Church seeking religious freedom found refuge at Pipe Spring,” says the National Park Service.
