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The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US providers
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Christine LagardePresident of the European Central Bankvotes For and says:
Today, the companies are being built elsewhere. Last year the United States produced 59 notable AI models and China produced 35. France and the United Kingdom produced one each. Along the rest of the AI value chain, the picture is the same: the Unite...
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Douglas A. RedikerNonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, specializing in foreign policy and the global economy.votes For and says:
Reliance on American or Chinese AI could progressively constrain their choices across industry, defense, science, health, information, culture, and politics, leaving formal sovereignty superficially intact while weakening practical control over the s...
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Andrea RendaDirector of Research at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), leading its Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy unit.votes For and says:
To remedy this situation, several proposals have been presented for an ambitious initiative that catalyses research and innovation around trustworthy AI solutions made in Europe and according to European values and principles.
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Roland LescureFrench Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty.votes For and says:
On ne peut pas mettre tous nos oeufs dans le même panier : c'est tout un écosystème qu'il faut développer.
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Pierre-Louis BiojoutFrench AI entrepreneur; founder of NanoCorp and former co-founder of Phospho, a generative-AI startup.votes For and says:
La promesse d'« IA souveraine européenne » a discrètement glissé de « nous construisons l'intelligence » à « nous hébergeons l'intelligence des autres sur le sol européen ». Ce sont deux entreprises très différentes.
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Eugene CheahCEO and co-founder of Featherless.ai, an AI-infrastructure company.votes For and says:
We can’t just invest in software and hardware; we have to invest in sovereignty.
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votes For and says:
Today, we are taking three concrete steps as we build the foundations of our customers' AI sovereignty: strengthening the reliability and regional control of inference, expanding access to third-party open models within that infrastructure, and bring...
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European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)EU joint initiative with participating countries and private partners that pools resources to make Europe a global leader in supercomputing.votes For and says:
These facilities represent a major investment in Europe's AI future, strengthening technological leadership, resilience and strategic autonomy through cutting-edge AI computing infrastructure built and operated in Europe. AI Gigafactories, together w...
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votes For and says:
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) sovereignty—a state’s capacity to develop, deploy, and control AI systems, including the data corpora, compute infrastructure, and model weights that constitute the AI supply chain, free from foreign dependenc...
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Jose CarreteroAI policy and technology-governance contributor to the European Commission’s Apply AI Alliance.votes For and says:
Europe should not build excellent, secure and well-regulated infrastructure whose principal role is to host models developed in the United States or China. We must also retain the knowledge, capital, compute and institutional capacity required to tra...
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Tsiporah FriedVisiting senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, writing on technology, sovereignty, and international security.votes For and says:
Europe represents a third vision. Rather than controlling frontier models or relying on corporate self-governance, the European approach has focused on reducing technological dependencies, strengthening regulatory oversight, and fostering sovereign i...
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European AI OfficeEuropean Commission body implementing and enforcing the EU AI Act.votes For and says:
The EU must nonetheless strengthen its sovereign ability to access, select, control, and benefit from frontier AI models.
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René ObermannChairman of Airbus; former CEO of Deutsche Telekom.votes For and says:
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 DoddsUK Labour Member of Parliament for Oxford East; former Chair of the Labour Party.votes For and says:
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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European UnionPolitical and economic unionvotes For and says:
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 ViolaDirector-General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission.votes For and says:
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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European Systemic Risk BoardEuropean Union body responsible for macro-prudential oversight and the prevention or mitigation of systemic risks to financial stability.votes For and says:
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 AerdtsDutch State Secretary for Digital Economy and Sovereignty.votes For and says:
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 NetherlandsNational government of the Netherlands, publishing its international strategy for a safe and responsible AI transition.votes For and says:
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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Uljan SharkaChief Executive Officer of Domyn.votes For and says:
The next wave of AI in Europe will be won by those who own and control the intelligence at the heart of their business.
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Sergio GagoChief Technology Officer at Cloudera who spoke at UN Open Source Week 2026 about accountable, human-centered AI deployment with incident reporting and community voice.votes For and says:
AI sovereignty and private AI together need to have or need to answer the following question. One, where does your data really reside? Two, who can access it and how and under what conditions? Three, which models can use that data or family of models...
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Aidan GomezCo-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" Transformer papervotes For and says:
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 FuestGerman economist, ifo Institute presidentvotes For and says:
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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Zach MeyersDirector of research at CERREvotes For and says:
Europe, Canada or other countries can be put in an extremely vulnerable position if they are cut off from advanced AI models.
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Martin MerzPresident of Sovereign Cloud at SAP SE, the parent company of Delos Cloud.votes For and says:
True sovereignty is built, not declared, and together, we are showing Europe exactly how it’s done.
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Jean CoumarosChief Executive Officer of Bleu, a French trusted-cloud company.votes For and says:
Our AI infrastructure investment will allow sensitive organizations to access the most advanced AI capabilities, on their own terms under their own jurisdiction.
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Nikolaus HaglChief Executive Officer of Delos Cloud GmbH, a German sovereign-cloud provider.votes For and says:
Germany and France are building the infrastructure that Europe needs to stay resilient, innovative, and in control of its own digital future.
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Le MondeFrench daily newspaper; editorial boardvotes For and says:
Europe must chart its own course: investing in its capabilities, supporting and coordinating its champions, and taking control of its infrastructure.
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Norbert PohlmannGerman information-security professor and co-author of a cookie-banner automation study.votes For and says:
Europe must build up its own capabilities for developing, operating and auditing powerful AI models.
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Christian KleinCEO of SAP SE, Europe's largest software companyvotes Against and says:DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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