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

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Arguments for

Control of critical systems

Supporters argue that AI, cloud, data, and compute have become critical infrastructure. If models and computing power are controlled outside Europe, others can exert leverage or cut access, so Europe needs sovereign alternatives and direct control over these systems.

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.

Édouard Philippe · Jun 13, 2026 · full quote
This sentiment of renting AI from someone rather than owning it is a national security risk [...] You need to fully control it.

Aidan Gomez · Jun 23, 2026 · full quote
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.

Octave Klaba · 2026 · full quote
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 of critical infrastructure.

Cristina Caffarra · 2026 · full quote
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 use it. Europe needs put on the …

Christophe Grudler · Jun 15, 2026 · full quote

Build compute at scale

Proponents say Europe must rapidly expand the physical base of AI, including supercomputers, AI Factories and Gigafactories, data centres, chip factories, and energy infrastructure. They present domestic computing capacity as a prerequisite for a viable European AI ecosystem and for building Europe's own advanced models.

We will upgrade our unique public network of supercomputers into AI Factories and AI Gigafactories. At the same time, we are expanding Europe's computing capacity through the recent Cloud and AI Development Act, paving the way for a sovereign AI ecosystem with a strong emphasis o…

Roberto Viola · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Europe controls only a fraction of the global AI infrastructure, but is a major user. While the United States accounts for about 75 percent of the world’s high-performance computing capacity for modern AI, and China about 15 percent, Europe lags far behind with less than 5 percen…

Clemens Fuest · Jun 19, 2026 · full quote
The cloud and AI development act will support research and innovation in cutting-edge and sustainable technologies, streamline conditions for deploying datacentres across the EU, and introduce a single EU-wide framework to assess cloud and AI sovereignty.

European Commission · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
Si nous ne construisons pas notre propre capacité de calcul, nous deviendrons des États vassaux, fournissant simplement l’électricité verte pendant que la valeur ajoutée et la souveraineté resteront aux États-Unis.

Arthur Mensch · May 18, 2026 · full quote
A CERN for AI could give Europe the computational infrastructure to build its own frontier AI models,

Centre for Future Generations · 2024 · full quote

Cut dependency, keep value

Supporters say relying on non-European hyperscalers or on U.S. and Chinese technology leaves Europe as a customer rather than a producer, deepens strategic dependence, and sends value creation elsewhere. Building European solutions is framed as necessary for competitiveness, strategic autonomy, and growth of the AI value chain in Europe.

De Europese AI-infrastructuur is sterk afhankelijk van niet-Europese aanbieders, wat in deze tijd van geopolitieke spanning economische en veiligheidsrisico’s met zich meebrengt. Het kabinet wil daarom strategische afhankelijkheden in de wereldwijde AI-waardeketen terugdringen en…

Government of the Netherlands · Jul 3, 2026 · full quote
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 call for another strategy pro…

Daniel Abbou · Jun 14, 2026 · full quote
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 provided either from the U.S. or fr…

Emmanuel Macron · Nov 18, 2025 · full quote
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.

Francisco Mingorance · 2026 · full quote
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 technology and not only using technolo…

Sebas Muriel Herrero · Mar 3, 2026 · full quote

Coordinate at European level

Some supporters argue that sovereignty should be built through coordinated European or allied efforts, such as joint sovereign capability, a distributed research infrastructure, and common EU frameworks. In this view, pooling capacity across Europe can reduce long-term vulnerabilities from foreign-owned compute while supporting collaboration and shared standards.

We must also work more concertedly with allies to develop joint sovereign capability. AI development needs to be part of an economic security reset with the EU, and we need to be able to participate in the Scaleup Europe Fund.

Anneliese Dodds · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote
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 centers, with a central hub serving…

Alexa Kodde · Jan 13, 2026 · full quote
The multinational partnership should aim to minimize its use of compute located in non-member states and compute owned by foreign entities. Although it could begin by renting compute, this reinforces and creates substantial vulnerabilities over time. Bridge power investments in A…

A Blueprint for Multinational Advanced AI Development · Nov 24, 2025 · full quote
Recognising the critical position of cloud technologies in the European digital environment, we are aiming to provide the right regulatory conditions for the development of sovereign cloud and AI computing services in the EU.

Henna Virkkunen · Feb 23, 2026 · full quote
The ESRB General Board calls on the EU to scale up its capacity, expertise and strategic autonomy in this critical area.

European Systemic Risk Board · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Protectionism and fragmentation

Critics argue that sovereignty policies can turn into protectionism through walls around technology, discriminatory rules, or many different requirements across Europe. They say this would make leading technology harder to use, slow digital adoption, fragment the market, and that Europe should expand data-centre capacity by attracting investment rather than shutting it out.

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 champions, but it would further …

Tanya Nagrath · Jun 11, 2026 · full quote
The Cloud and AI Development Act is a direct recipe for fragmented discrimination across Europe in 27 different ways, not only in public procurement but potentially also across thousands of private critical entities, from banks to energy companies.

Daniel Friedlaender · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
We deliver a lot of value to Europe. Erecting walls that make it harder to use some of the best technology in the world, especially as it’s advancing so quickly, would actually be counter-productive. [...] If we have 190 countries with 190 different rules, it’s very difficult to …

Kent Walker · Feb 13, 2026 · full quote
The EU’s ambition to triple data centre capacity is the right one. But the way to achieve that goal is by attracting investment, not shutting it out.

Mitchell Rutledge · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote

Full stack is unrealistic

Opponents say a full sovereign stack from chips to cloud is an unrealistic and costly goal. They argue that wholesale decoupling from global tech ecosystems, especially U.S. cloud, would risk stagnation and hurt European competitiveness more than it improves sovereignty.

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 to become independent to how t…

Jeremy Jurgens · 2026 · full quote
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 subsidies and "Buy European" clauses…

William Echikson · 2026 · full quote
trying to decouple wholesale from US cloud risks hurting European competitiveness more than it helps sovereignty.

Chris Stokel-Walker · Dec 19, 2025 · full quote

Insights

Both sides treat AI infrastructure as economically and strategically important; they differ over whether control comes mainly from ownership of domestic infrastructure or from openness in an interdependent system.
Supporters define the issue in physical terms such as servers, compute, supercomputers, data centres, cloud, chips, and energy infrastructure, not only in regulatory terms.
Opposing quotes mostly criticize the methods proposed for sovereignty, such as protectionism, Buy European rules, fragmented requirements, and decoupling, rather than arguing that Europe should ignore AI infrastructure altogether.
Within the supportive camp, some arguments are primarily about security and external leverage, while others focus on competitiveness and keeping more AI value creation in Europe.
Some pro-sovereignty quotes describe the goal as joint European or multinational capability rather than total isolation, including collaboration with allies and reduced long-term reliance on foreign-owned compute.

Supporters frame sovereign AI infrastructure as a strategic prerequisite for security, autonomy, and a stronger European AI industry, often emphasizing ownership of compute and cloud capacity. Critical quotes warn that sovereignty measures can become protectionist, fragmented, and unrealistic if they aim at broad decoupling from global providers. The core dispute is how Europe should pursue resilience and capacity: through ownership-focused sovereignty policies, or through more open and interdependent market arrangements.

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European AI Office
European Commission body implementing and enforcing the EU AI Act.

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The EU must nonetheless strengthen its sovereign ability to access, select, control, and benefit from frontier AI models.
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Chairman of Airbus; former CEO of Deutsche Telekom.

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To use the most advanced AI models, we largely depend on non-European infrastructure, and not just for the software itself. At best, this dependence will increase our costs. At worst, it will restrict our access to the most advanced AI models, which ...
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Anneliese Dodds
UK Labour Member of Parliament for Oxford East; former Chair of the Labour Party.

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We must also work more concertedly with allies to develop joint sovereign capability. AI development needs to be part of an economic security reset with the EU, and we need to be able to participate in the Scaleup Europe Fund.
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We will upgrade our unique public network of supercomputers into AI Factories and AI Gigafactories. At the same time, we are expanding Europe's computing capacity through the recent Cloud and AI Development Act, paving the way for a sovereign AI ecos...
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Roberto Viola
Director-General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission.

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We will upgrade our unique public network of supercomputers into AI Factories and AI Gigafactories. At the same time, we are expanding Europe's computing capacity through the recent Cloud and AI Development Act, paving the way for a sovereign AI ecos...
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The ESRB General Board calls on the EU to scale up its capacity, expertise and strategic autonomy in this critical area.
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Willemijn Aerdts
Dutch State Secretary for Digital Economy and Sovereignty.

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Nederland heeft alles in huis om een leidende rol te spelen in de ontwikkeling en toepassing van grensverleggende en verantwoorde AI: slimme ondernemers, innovatieve kennisinstellingen en een sterke chipindustrie. Door samen met Europese partners te ...
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Government of the Netherlands
National government of the Netherlands, publishing its international strategy for a safe and responsible AI transition.

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De Europese AI-infrastructuur is sterk afhankelijk van niet-Europese aanbieders, wat in deze tijd van geopolitieke spanning economische en veiligheidsrisico’s met zich meebrengt. Het kabinet wil daarom strategische afhankelijkheden in de wereldwijde ...
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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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Clemens Fuest
German economist, ifo Institute president

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Europe controls only a fraction of the global AI infrastructure, but is a major user. While the United States accounts for about 75 percent of the world’s high-performance computing capacity for modern AI, and China about 15 percent, Europe lags far ...
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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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Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
Labour member of the UK House of Lords who has advocated for UK sovereign artificial-intelligence capability.

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We rely too much on the USA’s big tech companies. I have long been an advocate of seeking to create our own UK sovereign AI entity.
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Lord Raval
Labour member of the UK House of Lords who has argued for sovereign artificial-intelligence capability and democratic control over AI systems.

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A nation reliant entirely on systems owned and governed elsewhere has accepted a strategic vulnerability.
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Mark Carney
Prime Minister of Canada; former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada

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We will expand sovereign compute and cloud infrastructure, reducing our reliance on foreign providers.
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Connect Europe
European telecommunications association representing connectivity providers and advocating on cloud, AI, and digital-infrastructure policy.

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Europe’s sovereign cloud ecosystem itself cannot flourish without robust, advanced and scalable connectivity, and sovereign telco technologies.
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European Commission
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The cloud and AI development act will support research and innovation in cutting-edge and sustainable technologies, streamline conditions for deploying datacentres across the EU, and introduce a single EU-wide framework to assess cloud and AI soverei...
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Arthur Mensch
Mistral AI co-founder and CEO

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Si nous ne construisons pas notre propre capacité de calcul, nous deviendrons des États vassaux, fournissant simplement l’électricité verte pendant que la valeur ajoutée et la souveraineté resteront aux États-Unis.
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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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Henna Virkkunen
EU Technology Commissioner

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Recognising the critical position of cloud technologies in the European digital environment, we are aiming to provide the right regulatory conditions for the development of sovereign cloud and AI computing services in the EU.
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Karsten Wildberger
Germany’s Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization.

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Today’s Joint Declaration of intent moves the German-Canadian Digital Alliance from vision to implementation. Germany and Canada are united in our belief that responsible AI development and resilient digital ecosystems are critical to long-term econo...
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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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A Blueprint for Multinational Advanced AI Development
November 2025 Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative memo (29 co-authors incl. Yoshua Bengio) arguing that "AI bridge powers" should jointly develop frontier AI

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The multinational partnership should aim to minimize its use of compute located in non-member states and compute owned by foreign entities. Although it could begin by renting compute, this reinforces and creates substantial vulnerabilities over time....
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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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Oliver Grün
BITMi president; GRÜN Software CEO

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unsere einseitigen technologischen Abhängigkeiten von den USA und China abzubauen. [...] die europäischen KI-Gigafabriken die KI-Wertschöpfung in Europa ankurbeln kann.
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CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.
Finnish non-profit IT center for science

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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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Abishur Prakash
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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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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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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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Jensen Huang
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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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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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Mitchell Rutledge
Policy Manager at CCIA Europe, a technology-industry trade association.

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The EU’s ambition to triple data centre capacity is the right one. But the way to achieve that goal is by attracting investment, not shutting it out.
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Daniel Friedlaender
Senior Vice President and Head of CCIA Europe (Computer & Communications Industry Association)

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The Cloud and AI Development Act is a direct recipe for fragmented discrimination across Europe in 27 different ways, not only in public procurement but potentially also across thousands of private critical entities, from banks to energy companies.
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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 that make it harder to use some of the best technology in the world, especially as it’s advancing so quickly, would actually be counter-productive. [...] If we have 190 countries with 190 different ...
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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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Chris Stokel-Walker
Journalist, author, presenter and lecturer

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votes Against and says:

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