EU aims for seven AI gigafactories with €10 billion plan in race with US, China
The plan aims to draw 20 billion euros in private investment and build data centers with at least 100,000 AI chips each.
- On Thursday, The European Union announced it is offering 10 billion euros in funding to build seven AI gigafactories, seeking to close the computing gap with American and Chinese providers.
- Europe currently lags behind American and Chinese rivals, relying on a network of 19 data centers from Finland to Spain; existing facilities have not kept pace with American companies like OpenAI or Chinese competitors like DeepSeek.
- Planned gigafactories will feature at least 100,000 cutting-edge chips each, making them roughly four times more powerful than current European data centers, while The Commission hopes public financing will draw an additional 20 billion euros in private investment.
- Henna Virkkunen, The Commission executive vice president, stated that access to computing power is a strategic necessity for "tech sovereignty," with new products required to follow European standards on data protection, safety, security, and ethics.
- Brussels leaders worry that dependence on foreign providers could be "weaponized" against Europeans, and the initiative seeks to reduce reliance on third-country access that might endanger operational autonomy and expose data to outside surveillance.
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The EU is investing in seven AI gigafactories to increase data capacity and promote European AI. The project aims to reduce dependence on the US and China.
The European Commission has opened a call for tenders to finance these gigantic structures designed to train artificial intelligence models. There are many challenges: budgetary uncertainty, compliance with environmental standards, dependence on Americans...
The European Union (EU) has launched a tender process for the establishment of up to seven AI gigafactories across Europe, aiming to increase its competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence and strengthen its technological independence.
(Brussels=Yonhap News) Correspondent Hyun Yun-kyung = The European Union (EU), feeling a sense of crisis as it falls behind in technology competition with the United States and China, [is] 10 billion euros (approximately 16.5 trillion...
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informacion.esThe race to take one of Europe’s seven artificial intelligence gigafactories has begun. The European Commission has opened this Thursday the call to build large-scale computer infrastructures that will serve to develop this technology, not to fall behind in the fierce global race that the United States and China starred in and strengthen the digital sovereignty of the community club.Continue reading....
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