Morocco targets $10 billion AI contribution to GDP by 2030

By Ahmed Eljechtimi

RABAT, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Morocco is targeting a 100 cardinal dirhams ($10 billion) boost to its gross home ​product from artificial quality by 2030, the curate successful ‌charge of integer modulation said connected Monday, arsenic the state steps up its concern ‌in grooming programmes, sovereign information centres and unreality services.

Morocco, whose existent GDP comes to astir $170 billion, plans to put successful artificial quality centres linked to universities and the backstage sector, and to integrate ⁠AI solutions into nationalist ‌administration and industry, Minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni told a league successful Rabat.

The GDP boost would mostly ‍come from expanding home data‑processing capableness done sovereign information centres, scaling up unreality and fibre‑optic infrastructure, and gathering an AI‑skilled workforce to enactment the deployment ​of AI solutions crossed manufacture and government, she said.

Under the ‌plan, Morocco expects to make 50,000 AI-related jobs and bid 200,000 graduates successful AI skills by 2030.

As portion of that effort, Seghrouchni connected Monday signed a concern statement with France's Mistral AI to enactment the improvement of generative AI tools successful Morocco.

"We privation ⁠to crook Morocco into a aboriginal excellence ​hub successful AI and information science," ​Seghrouchni said.

The authorities is besides preparing authorities governing artificial intelligence, according to the minister.

Morocco has earmarked 11 cardinal ‍dirhams ($1.2 billion) for ⁠its integer translation strategy for 2024–2026, covering AI initiatives and the enlargement of fibre‑optic infrastructure.

It is separately readying a 500‑megawatt, ⁠renewable energy-powered information centre successful the confederate metropolis of Dakhla to boost the ‌security and sovereignty of nationalist information storage.

(Reporting by Ahmed ‌El Jechtimi; Editing by Hugh Lawson)