The first meeting of the various bodies involved in Greece’s “AI Factory” has taken place at the Ministry of Digital Governance.
The ministry’s flagship Pharos project will be powered by Daedalus, the country’s own high-performance computing system, and developed at the Lavrio Technological and Cultural Park, in eastern Attica, with an allocated budget of €30 million.
The project’s 36-month implementation is set to begin immediately. The 89-Pflops Daedalus will be capable of performing billions of mathematical calculations per second, delivering computational power equivalent to one million conventional computers running simultaneously.
Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou said Pharos’ goal is to offer small and medium-sized enterprises, universities, research centers and the public sector a modern environment for the utilization of artificial intelligence, “not as an end in itself but as a lever for development”.
He said the system’s capabilities will be utilized for the development of personalized medicine applications, the optimization of natural resource management, the analysis of satellite data for the prediction of natural disasters as well as for the understanding and processing of administrative procedures in natural language with the aim of enhancing accessibility for people with disabilities.