Keynote - Cloud Policies for an AI Continent
summary
Europe has 45% of businesses on cloud versus a 75% target, and current data‑center capacity is roughly one third of the US and half of China. Commission plans push for tripling capacity in 5–7 years, building EuroHPC AI factories and private‑public gigafactories, and a regulatory Cloud and AI Development Act due between Oct 1 and Mar 31. Notes: chip utilization 75% in AI data centers vs 30% in general, permitting ranges from 9 months (Sweden) to 6 years (Italy).
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25Europe’s cloud and AI policy
- 2:57AI infrastructure and terminology
- 5:07Global data center growth
- 8:48Expanding European data centers
- 10:35Non-European cloud providers
- 12:20AI Continent Action Plan’s pillars
- 13:23AI factories for training
- 15:34Cloud and AI Development Act
- 18:45Tripling cloud capacity by 2030
- 20:52Secure EU cloud for critical use
- 22:22Policy adoption timeline
- 23:50Q&A
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