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The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US providers

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Aidan Gomez
Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" Transformer paper

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This sentiment of renting AI from someone rather than owning it is a national security risk [...] You need to fully control it.
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Christophe Grudler
French MEP (Renew Europe), Mouvement Démocrate; member of the European Parliament's ITRE committee on industry, research and energy

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The United States is once again demonstrating what we Liberals and Democrats have warned about so many times since Trump entered into office; that the US holds a real 'kill-switch' over essential technologies and that they are more than willing to us...
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Daniel Abbou
Managing director, German AI association

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What we experienced yesterday is not a surprise, it is the reckoning for years of hesitation. The US government has proven what we have long been warning: AI is strategic infrastructure. Those who do not control it will be controlled by it. We do not...
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Sebas Muriel Herrero
Chief Digital Officer of Telefónica

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We will provide the first federated secure and sovereign model where cloud, AI and edge are going to be able [to work together] so we can accelerate a lot of digital services on top of that, [...] Europe right now needs to invest in creating technolo...
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Soňa Muzikárová
Political economist; Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow; former European Central Bank economist and OECD diplomat

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Having entered the AI era over-regulated and under-industrialized, Europe imports the vast majority of its advanced semiconductors, pays materially higher industrial electricity prices than the US, and still relies on American cloud providers for the...
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Octave Klaba
Founder and Chairman (and CEO) of OVHcloud, Europe's largest cloud computing provider

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Defence now depends on cloud, data and AI. In the current context, Europe can no longer afford to depend on non-European technologies: it must have high-performance, sovereign alternatives.
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Cristina Caffarra
Competition economist; Honorary Professor at UCL; founder of the EuroStack Foundation

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As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach. [...] In today's geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control...
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Francisco Mingorance
Secretary General of CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe)

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A gigawatt of sovereign European cloud and AI infrastructure must mean investing in Europe's digital future and its strategic autonomy. Otherwise, Europe will simply deepen its dependence on overseas cloud giants.
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Emmanuel Macron
President of France

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And of course, our economy has entered the race for AI, cloud computing, chips, quantum technology, from downstream to upstream. [...] And let’s be clear : Europe doesn’t want to be the client of the big entrepreneurs or the big solutions being provi...
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Abishur Prakash
Geopolitical strategist and author

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Until Europe builds its own servers, housing European AI that hundreds of millions of Europeans use (and choose), there is no sovereign AI.
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Édouard Philippe
Former Prime Minister of France (2017–2020); Mayor of Le Havre; founder and leader of the Horizons party

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AI is now a critical infrastructure, as essential as electricity or the Internet. An infrastructure whose models and computing power we do not control is an infrastructure that others can unplug.
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Alexa Kodde
Communications officer at European AI group CAIRNE.

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Artificial Intelligence is transforming our world, and Europe must take bold steps to ensure its leadership in this critical field. CAIRNE envisions a “CERN for AI”—a pan-European initiative that will create a distributed network of AI research cente...
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Friedrich Merz
German Federal Chancellor

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Wir werden hier auch Innovationen [...] im Bereich der sogenannten AI-Gigafactories. Wir sind [...] viel zu abhängig [...] aus den Vereinigten Staaten. (English translation: Europe should build AI “gigafactories” and reduce dependence on U.S. techn...
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Thierry Breton
EU internal market commissioner

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It must invest in research and critical infrastructure: sovereign cloud services [...] AI and algorithms [...] freeing ourselves [...] such as the US [...] Cloud Act.
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Jensen Huang
Nvidia cofounder and CEO

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Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence. [...] It codifies your culture, your society's intelligence, your common sense, your history — you own your own data.
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Oliver Grün
President, IT SME association BITMi

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Abhängigkeiten von den USA [...] abzubauen. KI-Gigafabriken [...] die KI-Wertschöpfung in Europa ankurbeln kann. (English translation: Europe should build sovereign AI infrastructure and reduce dependence on U.S. providers/technology.)
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CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.
Finnish state-owned IT center

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reducing critical dependencies on non-European hyperscalers. Europe must take decisive action [...] compute infrastructures and data centres [...] Cloud and AI Development Act.
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Centre for Future Generations
European think tank on emerging technologies

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A CERN for AI could give Europe the computational infrastructure to build its own frontier AI models,
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Tanya Nagrath
Policy Analyst at ITIF

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However, Europe’s primary economic challenge is its anemic tech-driven productivity growth, not its use of American technology. Embracing protectionism will do nothing to remedy this failure, nor will it miraculously create new European technology ch...
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Jeremy Jurgens
Managing Director of the World Economic Forum; head of its Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution / frontier technologies

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Governments are on track to spend more than $1 trillion by 2030 chasing a sovereign stack, the full range of hardware and capabilities necessary to deploy and operate AI infrastructure. [...] In an interdependent system, the question shifts from how ...
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William Echikson
Brussels-based non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA); journalist and tech policy analyst

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Proponents of a "EuroStack" argue that Europe must build its own alternative at every level — from chips to cloud to software. But this path represents a €5-trillion mirage. Attempting to decouple from the global tech ecosystem through massive subsid...
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Kent Walker
Google President of Global Affairs

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We deliver a lot of value to Europe. Erecting walls [...] would actually be counter-productive, If we have 190 countries [...] it’s very difficult to build software,
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Chris Stokel-Walker
Journalist, author, presenter and lecturer

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trying to decouple wholesale from US cloud risks hurting European competitiveness more than it helps sovereignty.
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