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Comment by Soňa Muzikárová
Political economist; Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow; former European Central Bank economist and OECD diplomat
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.
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(2026)
26d ago
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Verified via web search. Quote is from Soňa Muzikárová's Project Syndicate article "Europe Cannot Avoid an AI Reckoning" from February 2026. The Project Syndicate URL returned 403 to WebFetch but multiple sources (Project Syndicate, Korea Times reprint, Project Syndicate Substack) confirm the exact phrasing about "Europe enters the AI era over-regulated and under-industrialized" and the prescription for Europe to build physical/financial infrastructure for a domestic AI industry. Vote "for" the statement "The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers" aligns perfectly - Muzikárová explicitly identifies dependence on American cloud providers as a problem and calls for European industrial buildout.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 21d ago
replying to Soňa Muzikárová