{"id":17051,"date":"2026-01-07T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=17051"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:53:42","slug":"taiwan-launches-us3-2-billion-push-to-become-a-global-ai-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/taiwan-launches-us3-2-billion-push-to-become-a-global-ai-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Launches US$3.2 Billion Push to Become a Global AI Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Taiwan will invest more than US$3.2 billion to build a world-class AI industry, Nikkei Asia reported on Nov. 18, 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The funding will back the government\u2019s 10 Major AI Infrastructure Projects, a strategy likened to Taiwan\u2019s 1970s infrastructure push that helped reshape the economy. President Lai Ching-te\u2019s administration wants AI to become a new industrial pillar alongside semiconductors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Premier Cho Jung-tai said a draft 2026 budget allocates over US$1.0 billion for the first phase of long-term investment. Officials project the program could create US$224 billion in added value by 2028 and US$480 billion by 2040.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The initiative targets three core technologies: silicon photonics, quantum computing, and AI robotics, supported by specialized research hubs. Taiwan also aims to rank among the global top five in computing power, including a national facility in Tainan and a major Kaohsiung data center planned by Nvidia and Foxconn. Energy supply remains a key risk.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan will invest more than US$3.2 billion to build a world-class AI industry, Nikkei Asia reported on Nov. 18, 2025. The funding will back the government\u2019s 10 Major AI Infrastructure&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17066,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions\/17066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}