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Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Announces Plan to Bring Autonomous Driving Systems into Society by 2028
Akio Sato, chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, said at a press conference in Tokyo on the 17th that the association aims to put core autonomous driving systems into practical use in some regions by 2028. He stressed the need for public-private cooperation to achieve this, and said the association will move quickly to build an information control platform that integrates systems for remotely monitoring autonomous vehicles and mechanisms for cars to receive pedestrian information from sensors and cameras on roads. Sato argued that eliminating traffic deaths and improving convenience should go hand in hand, and said the pace of development will be accelerated. The public and private sectors will also consider creating a framework to provide relief for victims and conduct accident investigations when accidents occur.
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MemryX and Lenovo Sign MOU to Expand Sovereign Edge AI in Saudi Arabia
MemryX has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lenovo to expand the deployment of sovereign edge AI solutions across Saudi Arabia. The agreement builds on joint platform deployments already operating in the Kingdom and establishes a framework for the two companies to pursue additional opportunities across infrastructure, industrial operations, smart cities and video management, supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030. The joint platform combines the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 rugged edge server with the MemryX Cascade 100P AI accelerator to process video and sensor data on site, reducing latency and limiting reliance on centralized, power- and cooling-intensive AI infrastructure. The platform is already operating in large-scale infrastructure programs in Saudi Arabia, with one deployment delivering real-time construction safety analytics including personal protective equipment compliance and site safety event detection, and a second running compliance and site-monitoring workloads in a port environment across the operator's existing camera infrastructure. Under the MOU, Lenovo and MemryX will expand customer deployments in Saudi Arabia, validate the platform through a Lenovo Center of Excellence, develop additional solutions through Lenovo AI Innovation, and explore rack-scale server configurations for computer vision inference, supporting potential regional and global go-to-market opportunities.
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Data centre electricity demand set at 8.8 gigawatts in draft PDP2026
The Ministry of Energy has included data centre electricity demand of 8.8 gigawatts in the draft national power development plan, or PDP 2026, after finding that applications for electricity from data centre operators totalled as much as 35 gigawatts, close to the country's peak electricity demand of 40 gigawatts. Pongpol Yodmuangcharoen, a spokesman for the Ministry of Energy, said at Gastech 2026 that these applications represent artificial demand, because investors tend to request high reserve quotas and backup power supplies. The draft plan also changes the criterion for measuring power security from the reserve generation margin to the loss of load expectation, or LOLE, and accommodates clean energy under the Solar Rooftop policy for 1 million households, which will add more than 5,000 megawatts of generating capacity. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand must upgrade the grid into a two-way system with a budget of about 1 billion US dollars, or roughly 35 billion baht, especially in the Eastern Economic Corridor, or EEC, alongside integrating data among the Provincial Electricity Authority, the Metropolitan Electricity Authority, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand and the Energy Regulatory Commission to create a real-time master data network, and enforcing grid connection requirements, or the Grid Code, so that data centres manage themselves before shifting the burden onto the public grid.