The European Union (EU) Wants to more than triple the size of its datacentre capacity In the next five-to-service years to reduce its dependence on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Compute Capacity located in other regions of the world, it has emerged.
This International is Detailed in a Copy of the Eu's Draft 12-Page AI Continent Planwhich sets out the actions it class must taken to bot capitalise on the european union's existing strengthe
“The eu currently lags behind the us and china in terms of available datacentre capacity, rely [and] This dependency on non-eu infrastructure is a concert for european industry but also for public authorities, “said the draft document, seen by computer weekly.
“To adequately serve the Ai and General Computing Needs of Businesses and Public Administrations Accounts The Entre Eu, and to Ensure Competitiveness and Sovereignty, It is the EU to ISSENTIL FOR The Eu To Increas Cloud and datacentre capacity in a geographically balanced manner. “
To ensure the eu has access to enough sovereign cloud capacity to support its Ambitions, it is consulting on the creation of Legislation – Dubbed the cloud and ai development act – ACCELOPMENT ACT – To access the packe of life Datacentre developments.
“Today, the average time to obtain a period and the related environmental authorizations for building a datacentre in europe often lies upwards of 48 months… [and] The datacentre industry struggles to identify suitable sites, and to obtain sufficient energy to power their facilities. The Cloud and AI Development Act will address these obstacles, ”said the document.
It will do this by ensuring datacentre projects that met certain energy and water Efficiency Usage Requirements Benefit from Simplified Permiting Permiting Proceedings so they can be fast-tracked.
“For Highly Critical Use Cases, Including AI Applications, Sovereignty and Operational Autonomy Can only be preserved by relaying on highly secure eu-spoken CAPACTY. Will ensure that the public sector in the eu can relay on such capacity for these use cases, thus laying the basis for the public sector to adopt ai in an environment of touch, “the document constant.
The document also outlined an intention by the eu to improve competition with the continent's cloud market. “More generally, to enable the entry into the market of a more divese set of cloud service providers, the cloud and ai development act will explore establishing a Common Marketplace for Cloud Cloud Cloud Capacity and Services,” It added.
These Actions are all part of a push by the eu to establish its own “distinctive approach to ai by capitalising on its strengths and what it does best
These strengths include having access to a “Substantial Pool of Engineers and Skilled Professionals, A Large Single Market With One Single Set of Safety Rules” That Ensure the AI THANOLOGIES BEEINGES Produced and used by its members are high quality and Trustworthy.
The eu is home to a Flourishing Community of 6,300 AI Startups, with more than 600 of these focused on generative ai (genai), said the document, but action Must be TAKEN TO ENSURE these FIRMS – AS WOLL ASEE FIRMS – AS WOLL A Population of AI Researchers-Have the Resources they need to turn their early ai wins into long-term success stories.
On this point, the document said there needs to be a scaling up of the continent's public ai computer infrastructure by establishing “GigaFACTORES Capacity that can be connected by networks to create “AI Factories”.
The eu has alredy committed to providing € 20bn of ai infrastructure funding to partly cover the creation of five ai gigafactories with Public-Private Partnerships to Accelerate the Buildout of these facilites.
“These GigaFactories will Foster Scientific Collection Around Powerful and Unique Infrastructure, Bringing Togeing TogeTher Researches, Entrepreneurs and Investors to Tackle Ambitioes in ARASACTS in AREASACE LIKE Healthcare, Robotics and Scientific Discovery, “The document stated.
Establishing the eu as an ai superpower will also require ai innovators to have access to better quality data, as well as for more work to be done in-contrast on the development of ai algorithm Their adoption within “strategic sector”.
More needs to be done to grow the eu's “Strong Ai Talent Base” by “Further Developing Excellence in Ai Education and Research” Continent, the document added.
John Buyers, Global Head of AI at Law Firm Osborne Clarke, Said the Eu Document Shares a Lot of Common Ground With the UK Government's recently introduced AI Opportunities Action Plan,
,[The] Key themes of the eu's plans echo thats of the uk government's AI Opportunities Action Plan Such as the focus on boosting ai innovation, the important of data for ai systems to work on and the need for a Major Increase in Compute Capacity, “He said.
“There is a real emphasis on esing the burden of regulation and removing barriers to innovation… [and] The eu is explicitly recognizing the crucial importance of ai for economic growth and security. “