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Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation, the federal government's AUD 15 billion sovereign investment vehicle, made an AUD 20 million (USD 14 million) equity investment in Diraq, a Sydney-based silicon-qubit quantum computing startup spun out of UNSW Sydney. The funding backs research, product development and commercialisation as Diraq works toward a utility-scale quantum computer, and is framed by the NRFC as building sovereign quantum capability and keeping the IP and jobs onshore in Australia.

Dubai's Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched AED 12.8 billion (~USD 3.5bn) in strategic expansion projects for the Dubai Silicon Oasis free zone, comprising a AED 11 billion (~USD 3.0bn) "District IO" technology district and a AED 1.8 billion (~USD 0.49bn) Block 14 mixed-use development. District IO targets smart mobility, 3D printing, robotics, X-Tech, AI, quantum computing and Web3 firms via 25 LEED-compliant buildings, R&D labs and data centres, with capacity for 6,500+ companies and a stated goal of AED 103bn GDP contribution and 70,000+ jobs by 2036. Global Trade Alert classifies the intervention as a financial grant plus an in-kind grant to the free zone.

On 15 December 2025, Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, Evan Solomon, announced Phase 1 of the Canadian Quantum Champions Program (CQCP), awarding CAD 92 million (up to CAD 23 million each) to four domestic quantum-computing developers — Anyon Systems, Nord Quantique, Photonic, and Xanadu Quantum Technologies — to accelerate progress toward fault-tolerant quantum computers with industrial and defence applications. The program is designed to anchor quantum companies, talent and intellectual property inside Canada, moving systems beyond academic prototypes toward real-world testing and practical workloads, and sits within a broader ~CAD 334.3 million, five-year federal quantum-ecosystem commitment tied to Budget 2025 and Canada's National Quantum Strategy.

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, via Horizon Europe grant agreement 101253078, is co-funding "AI:AT — the AI Factory Austria" with EUR 14,999,999.45 in EU/EuroHPC funding against a total project cost of EUR 29,999,998.79 (matched roughly 50/50 by Austrian national and consortium co-funding). The grant runs 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2028 and is coordinated by Advanced Computing Austria (ACA) GmbH together with the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and a consortium of Austrian academic and industry partners. AI:AT builds supercomputing infrastructure and AI services as Austria's national node in the EU's AI Factories network, one implementing grant under the EU AI Continent Action Plan (COM(2025)165, filed 2025-04-09-eu-ai-continent-action-plan).

SETT, the operational vehicle of Spain's PERTE Chip programme, announced a EUR 9.5 million public investment in Ideaded, a Viladecans (Barcelona) company developing microchips on alternative substrates to silicon. The funding is earmarked to complete Spain's first pilot plant for silicon-alternative microchips, financed under the Plan de Recuperacion, Transformacion y Resiliencia (NextGenerationEU). Target output is 50 wafers/month (first wafer expected 2026) plus up to 300 million RFID antennas/year, aimed at advanced-computing, AI and defence applications.

The General Office of the Fujian Provincial People's Government issued Min Zheng Ban [2025] No. 30, "Several Measures to Promote the Development of the Artificial Intelligence Industry and Empowerment Applications in Fujian Province," on 2025-11-04. The notice implements the national "AI+" initiative at provincial level via three quantified subsidy tracks: a talent-recruitment supplement of RMB 200,000/year per person for AI engineers registered on a provincial core-engineer roster; a compute subsidy covering up to 50% of annual cloud/compute-service spend (capped at RMB 500,000 per firm) for companies purchasing at least RMB 100,000 of computing services per year; and a one-time capital subsidy of up to 50% of build cost (capped at RMB 5,000,000) for qualifying AI innovation platforms. The measure is in force through 2028-12-31 (per GTA state-act revocation date) and is one of a wave of province- and city-level AI industrial-policy notices issued across China in late 2025.

The US Department of Energy announced $625 million in funding to renew its five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers for up to five more years, supporting the National Quantum Initiative Act (2018). $125 million is allocated for Fiscal Year 2025, with outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. The renewed centers are hosted at Brookhaven, Fermilab, Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, and Oak Ridge national laboratories. Global Trade Alert logged the announcement as state aid affecting research/computing-machinery trade partners including Australia, Austria and Belgium, though the DOE release itself is domestic-research funding with no explicit foreign-country provisions.

The Beijing Fengtai District Science and Technology and Information Bureau issued Fengkexinfa [2025] No. 7, "Several Measures to Support AI Science and Technology Innovation and Industrial Innovation Integration and Development in Fengtai District," on 2025-10-30. The notice bundles ten categories of subsidy for AI enterprises operating in the district, covering compute-purchase cost-sharing (20% up to RMB 2,000,000 for general AI firms, 30% up to RMB 3,000,000 for "industrial intelligence" firms), large-model development grants (up to RMB 500,000-600,000), dataset/data-asset subsidies (RMB 100,000-2,000,000), platform and incubator capex (up to RMB 5,000,000 and RMB 10,000,000 respectively), and fund-manager and talent-recruitment support. The measure is in force through 2028-12-31.

On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-AI" call, a USD 1.6 billion support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology- investment-programme`), targeting large-scale IT investments delivering AI services, managed/self-service cloud offerings, and AI-hardware buildouts of at least USD 100 million. The call bundles multiple instruments — tax reduction up to 60%, capex grants up to 40% (with an additional up to 20% grant specifically for AI-hardware investment), concessional financing up to 70%, employment support, and market-development support up to 20% — and was announced alongside a parallel USD 1.5 billion "HIT-Data Centre" call, a USD 300 million "HIT-Quantum" call, and a USD 1 billion "HIT-Industrial Robot" call. Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır framed the combined package as designed to mobilise USD 10 billion in data-centre and AI investment by 2030, lifting national data-centre capacity from 250 MW to 1 GW.

On 17 October 2025 Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology opened the "HIT-Quantum" call, a USD 300 million support tranche under the HIT-30 High Technology Investment Programme (see `2024-07-26-turkiye-hit-30-high-technology-investment-programme`), aimed at building high-capacity infrastructure for quantum computing services, a scalable quantum hardware/software ecosystem for research centres, universities and the private sector, and skilled-workforce development. The call was announced alongside three parallel HIT-30 sector calls — a USD 1.6 billion "HIT-AI" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-ai-cloud-infrastructure-call`), a USD 1.5 billion "HIT-Data Centre" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-data-centre-call`), and a USD 1 billion "HIT-Industrial Robot" call (see `2025-10-17-turkiye-hit-industrial-robot-call`). Global Trade Alert logs this single government call as three separate "interventions" (financial grant, state loan, and tax/social-insurance relief) under state act 95017.

On 9 October 2025 the Shandong Provincial People's Government General Office issued Notice 鲁政办字〔2025〕129号, promulgating "Several Measures to Accelerate High-Quality Development of Shandong's Commercial Aerospace Industry," effective on issuance through 31 December 2027. The package targets three sub-sectors — launch vehicles, satellite manufacturing/applications, and aerospace supporting industries — with a province-wide goal of reaching an annual production capacity of 100 commercial rocket launches and 150 commercial satellites, and a commercial-aerospace industry scale of RMB 50 billion (500亿元), by 2027. Concrete subsidy instruments include a sea-launch insurance rebate (up to 35% of "launch insurance" and "third-party liability insurance" premiums, capped at RMB 3 million per project) for operators launching from the Yantai Dongfang Aerospace Port sea-launch platform, a bounty of up to RMB 1 million per product for satellite-application AI models that pass third-party evaluation, and a computing-power subsidy of up to 5% of contract value (capped at RMB 5 million per firm) for satellite applications that procure significant compute. The measures also direct Yantai to anchor sea-launch and integrated manufacturing, Jinan and Tai'an to build out rocket/satellite manufacturing and constellation operations, and Qingdao to specialise in satellite-application clusters and Belt-and-Road-facing services.

On 2 October 2025, Denmark's state-owned Export and Investment Fund (EIFO) and Novo Holdings launched 55 North, a Copenhagen-based venture capital platform dedicated exclusively to quantum technology (computing, sensing and communications), announcing a first close of EUR 134 million (DKK ~1 billion) toward a EUR 300 million (DKK ~2.2 billion) target fund. EIFO's participation executes a direct mandate from Denmark's 2023 National Strategy for Quantum Technology, which tasked EIFO with creating a globally leading quantum investment vehicle. The fund targets roughly 75% of capital toward European companies (a quarter reserved for Nordic firms) and has already backed Finland's IQM (EUR 275 million Series B) and Germany's Kiutra (EUR 13 million Series A-2).

On 18 September 2025 Brazil's federal government published Medida Provisória (Provisional Measure) 1318/2025, creating REDATA — the Special Taxation Regime for Datacenter Services — alongside a parallel IT-export regime (REPES). REDATA zeroes federal taxes on servers, storage, networking, cooling and other datacenter capital equipment for qualifying operators from 1 January 2026, conditioned on 100% renewable/zero-carbon energy sourcing, a 2% of investment R&D-in-Brazil commitment, and preferential use of Brazilian- manufactured components. The Finance Ministry projects R$5.2 billion in forgone-tax incentives in 2026 alone, with potential to unlock up to R$2 trillion in private datacenter investment over ten years. REDATA is framed as implementing the National Datacenter Policy (PNDC) under the Nova Indústria Brasil industrial-policy umbrella.

On 17 September 2025 the General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government issued Hufubangui [2025] No. 8, a five-year (26 September 2025 - 25 September 2030) state-aid framework to accelerate frontier-technology innovation and cultivate "future industries" across six domains — future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space and future health. Targeted technology areas include cell and gene therapy, brain-computer interfaces, biomanufacturing, embodied intelligence (humanoid robotics/AI hardware), fourth-generation semiconductors, silicon photonics, 6G, neuromorphic computing, quantum technology, controlled nuclear fusion and regenerative medicine. Support is disbursed as tiered direct subsidies rather than tax relief, with named ceilings up to CNY 30 million per proof-of-concept/R&D platform and CNY 20 million per high-quality incubator or first-product/batch innovation award.

On 25 August 2025, Brazil's federal government launched a combined BRL 12 billion (~USD 2.2bn) subsidised credit line to fund the diffusion of Industry 4.0 machinery and equipment across the Brazilian industrial base. BNDES (national development bank) contributes BRL 10 billion nationwide through its "Crédito Indústria 4.0" line; Finep (research-financing agency) adds BRL 2 billion via its "Difusão Tecnológica" line, reserved for companies in the North, Northeast and Center-West regions to narrow regional investment gaps. Financing covers capital goods incorporating robotics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, sensing, machine-to-machine communication and IoT, at concessional rates of roughly 7.5-8% plus spread; credit approvals began 15 September 2025. The line operates under the Nova Indústria Brasil (NIB) national industrial-policy framework.

On 28 July 2025 the General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government issued Hufubangui [2025] No. 6, the "Shanghai Embodied Intelligence Industry Development Implementation Plan" (上海市具身智能产业发展实施方案), a dedicated municipal state-aid package to build Shanghai into a global innovation hub for embodied intelligence (humanoid robotics / physical AI). The plan targets an industry scale of CNY 500 billion by 2027, alongside at least 20 core algorithm/technology breakthroughs, four or more high-quality incubators, and "100-100-100" targets for leading enterprises, applications and products. Support is disbursed as tiered direct subsidies capped at CNY 50 million (30% of project cost) for core-technology R&D, CNY 40 million per company per year for computing-power credits, CNY 20 million (50% of cost) for public-platform construction, CNY 10 million (20% of cost) for application-demonstration projects, CNY 5 million per company per year for language-corpus services, CNY 5 million (5% of contract value) for robot sales/rental incentives, CNY 5 million per open-source project, and CNY 1 million per leading enterprise for standards development. Target application sectors are logistics, industrial manufacturing, retail, healthcare/eldercare and domestic services.

The European Commission approved a EUR 41.5 million Italian direct-grant state aid measure to Ephos Srl, an Italian photonics SME, to help finance "Fab-2," a new manufacturing facility for glass-based photonic integrated circuits used in AI datacentres, high-performance computing and quantum computing. The aid was cleared under the European Chips Act state aid framework (Commission case SA.117987, decision of 25 July 2025) and forms part of a EUR 104.9 million total project investment. Ephos already operates a first facility (Fab-1) in Milan; Fab-2 is intended to be the first EU facility of its kind processing this glass-substrate photonic chip technology at scale.

Italy's Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) signed a decree ("Disciplina degli interventi di sostegno alla domanda di servizi di cloud computing e cyber security") on 18 July 2025 establishing a EUR 150 million fund, drawn from FSC 2014-2020 resources, to subsidize SME and self-employed purchases of cloud computing and cybersecurity services nationwide. Beneficiaries receive a non-repayable grant covering up to 50% of eligible expenses, capped at EUR 20,000 per beneficiary, conditional on holding a connectivity contract of at least 30 Mbps download speed. Supplier registration (a prerequisite for the voucher's use) was originally set to close 23 April 2026 and was later extended to 27 May 2026; beneficiary application procedures follow once the authorized-supplier list is formed.

The Beijing Economic-Technological Development Zone (BDA / Yizhuang) Management Committee issued Jingjiguanfa [2025] No. 15, "Several Measures on Promoting Quantum Technology and Industry Development in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Zone," on 2025-07-14, effective immediately and in force through 2027-12-31. The package spans ten support lines covering the full quantum stack (computing hardware/software, communications, sensing): up to RMB 2,000,000 one-off support for disruptive early-stage R&D projects, R&D-investment matching at 20% of an enterprise's prior-year R&D spend capped at RMB 5,000,000, 1:1 matching up to RMB 30,000,000 for enterprises undertaking state/municipal quantum research tasks, RMB 500,000 per product for new-technology/product certifications, up to RMB 100,000 per flagship application-demonstration project, up to RMB 30,000,000/year (three years max) for quantum-computing cloud platforms and compute centers, up to RMB 5,000,000/year (three years max) for operating industry-ecosystem platforms, rent subsidies up to RMB 1.5/sqm/day (max 2,000 sqm, three years), and talent, financing ("patient capital"/future-industry guidance fund), and international- cooperation support. The zone targets an internationally influential quantum industry cluster by 2027.

The European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the EIB Group, announced on 24 June 2025 an investment of EUR 30 million (~USD 34.5 million) in Quantonation II, a Paris-based early-stage venture capital fund dedicated to quantum technology and deep physics. The investment is made under the InvestEU framework and is explicitly framed by EIF Chief Executive Marjut Falkstedt as reinforcing "Europe's technological sovereignty." Quantonation II targets a total fund size of EUR 200 million and plans a portfolio of roughly 25 high-potential companies plus 5 venture studios. Global Trade Alert separately logs the transaction as a "red"-flagged state-linked financial-investment- support intervention.

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation approved up to USD 18.3 million in EDGE (Economic Development for a Growing Economy) payroll-based tax credits for Amazon Data Services Inc., tied to Amazon Web Services' USD 11 billion data center campus at the Indiana Enterprise Center in New Carlisle, St. Joseph County. The credit was one component of a larger state incentive package announced by Governor Eric Holcomb on 2024-04-25, which also included up to USD 55 million in Hoosier Business Investment tax credits, up to USD 20 million in redevelopment tax credits, up to USD 5 million in training grants, a USD 7 million road-infrastructure contribution, and a 50-year state sales-tax exemption on data center equipment. IEDC records cite an incentive-agreement effective date of 2023-09-01. The project committed to creating at least 1,000 new jobs.

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation approved up to USD 55 million in Hoosier Business Investment (HBI) tax credits for Amazon Data Services Inc., tied to Amazon Web Services' USD 11 billion data center campus at the Indiana Enterprise Center in New Carlisle, St. Joseph County. This is the largest single instrument in the five-part state incentive package Governor Eric Holcomb announced on 2024-04-25, which also included up to USD 18.3 million in EDGE payroll tax credits, up to USD 20 million in redevelopment tax credits, up to USD 5 million in training grants, a USD 7 million road-infrastructure contribution, and a 50-year state sales-tax exemption on data center equipment. IEDC describes all incentives as performance-based, claimable only once the underlying investment and job-creation commitments are verified. IEDC records cite an incentive-agreement effective date of 2023-09-01.

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation approved up to USD 20 million in redevelopment tax credits for Amazon Data Services Inc., tied to Amazon Web Services' USD 11 billion data center campus at the Indiana Enterprise Center in New Carlisle, St. Joseph County. This is the third of five distinct incentive instruments in the state package Governor Eric Holcomb announced on 2024-04-25, alongside up to USD 18.3 million in EDGE payroll tax credits, up to USD 55 million in Hoosier Business Investment tax credits, up to USD 5 million in training grants, a USD 7 million road-infrastructure contribution, and a 50-year state sales-tax exemption on data center equipment. IEDC records cite an incentive-agreement effective date of 2023-09-01.