Brussels AI struggle plan has to turn Europe into a world leader and pleasure the US

If it is up to the European Commission, Europe becomes leading in the field of artificial intelligence, according to the AI ​​Continent Action Plan presented on Wednesday. Although the Americans with Chatgtp are dominant, and China recently surprised friend and foe with Deepseek, « the race for the leadership in the field of AI has not been long. »

The European Commission continues its AI offensive: « Breakthroughs remain the boundaries of the possible pushing. » In that spirit and building on the launch of the Investai initiative that has to free up 200 billion euros for Investments in AIas announced in February at the AI ​​summit in Paris-Brussels wants to « at least » set up thirteen European AI factories, and up to five AI giga factories. In those giga factories, complex AI models must be trained on unprecedented scale.

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With the Investai facility, Brussels wants to free up 20 billion euros in private investments for the sample factories, in addition to private investments in cloud and data centers via the ‘Cloud and AI Development Act’. The EU data center capacity must be « at least tripled » in the next five to seven years, whereby priority must be given to ‘sustainable data centers’.

Those databol works with AI technology are known to be well-known Water Large consumers-for cooling electrical components-and energy, whereby existing centers often use fossil fuels. A request via Chatgpt uses ten times as much electricity as a Google search, calculated the International Energy Agency. What the sustainable European data centers should look exactly like is not specified in the action plan.

The global AI market is estimated at $ 244.22 billion in 2025, calculated the German statistics company Statista, with the US as the largest market (with a share of more than 30 percent). A growth rate of 26.6 percent per year is expected for the period 2025-2031.

In addition to building a large-scale AI calculation infrastructure, the committee wants to increase access to ‘High Quality Data’ and promote AI ‘in strategic sectors’. Currently, only 13.5 percent of EU companies use AI.

‘Strong political rugwind’

The ‘Apply AI’ strategy must stimulate and integrate AI use in various European industries in the public sector and health care. « The AI ​​plans have a strong political racing wind, » says Reinier van Lanschot, MEP for Volt. « The importance of strategic autonomy in Europe is being felt more and more. »

Brussels wants to attract more AI talent. In doing so, she wants to facilitate international recruitment, among other things by opening legal migration routes for highly educated workers from outside the EU. « Look at Apple, with one of the highest market shares in the world, good for thousands of billions. They too have developed AI, Apple Intelligence – and that is much less good than other models. Take the Chinese example Deepseek, that has taught us that it is also about the people behind the software, » says Van Lanschot.

Although he is ‘positive’ about the plan, he also watches over its implementation. He reminds ‘Gaia-X’, a major plan from the 2020 committee, to get autonomy in the field of data storage. But also: « A failed project, that’s why most people have never heard of it. » « Will we succeed this time? » Van Lanschot wonders.

While Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Ai calls a « gift for humanity », and wants to quit the struggle with the US and China critics On the ‘simplification plans of the AI ​​Act’, which provides the committee ‘streamlined and simpler rules’ for AI companies. According to Polrico Is the Continent Plan therefore also a charm offensive towards the US.

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