Comment by Soňa Muzikárová

Europe enters the AI era over-regulated and under-industrialized, imports the vast majority of its advanced semiconductors, pays materially higher industrial electricity prices than the U.S., and still relies on American cloud providers for the bulk of its compute. [...] Europe must move past its focus on regulatory excellence and make rapid strides toward building the physical and financial infrastructure that a domestic European AI industry will need. Unverified source (2026)