{"id":18417,"date":"2025-04-09T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/eu-to-build-ai-gigafactories-in-e20bn-push-to-catch-up-with-us-and-china\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:37:17","slug":"eu-to-build-ai-gigafactories-in-e20bn-push-to-catch-up-with-us-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/eu-to-build-ai-gigafactories-in-e20bn-push-to-catch-up-with-us-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to build AI gigafactories in \u20ac20bn push to catch up with US and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to five sites with power-hungry supercomputers and datacentres planned to drive AI \u2018moonshots\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/apr\/09\/ireland-deputy-pm-meet-us-secretary-commerce-eu-response-trump-tariffs-europe-latest-updates-news\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The EU has revealed details of a \u20ac20bn (\u00a317bn) plan to create new sites equipped with vast supercomputers in Europe to develop the next generation of artificial intelligence models, while opening the door to amending its landmark law that regulates the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/library\/ai-continent-action-plan\">a strategy to turn Europe into an \u201cAI continent\u201d<\/a>, the European Commission vice-president Henna Virkkunen said the technology was at the heart of making Europe more competitive, secure and technologically sovereign, adding: \u201cThe global race for AI is far from over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/09\/eu-to-build-ai-gigafactories-20bn-push-catch-up-us-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/df7b7ff35ad0a1c0cc69671a7f924c41d409201c\/253_0_3461_2077\/master\/3461.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=68fe8fad557d0f2d5c9498a91742f4d8\" title=\"EU to build AI gigafactories in \u20ac20bn push to catch up with US and China\" \/>Up to five sites with power-hungry supercomputers and datacentres planned to drive AI \u2018moonshots\u2019<br \/>\nEurope live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nThe EU has revealed details of a \u20ac20bn (\u00a317bn) plan to create new sites equipped with vast supercomputers in Europe to develop the next generation of artificial intelligence models, while opening the door to amending its landmark law that regulates the technology.<br \/>\nPublishing a strategy to turn Europe into an \u201cAI continent\u201d, the European Commission vice-president Henna Virkkunen said the technology was at the heart of making Europe more competitive, secure and technologically sovereign, adding: \u201cThe global race for AI is far from over.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to five sites with power-hungry supercomputers and datacentres planned to drive AI \u2018moonshots\u2019 Europe live \u2013 latest updates The EU has revealed details of a \u20ac20bn (\u00a317bn) plan to create new sites equipped with vast supercomputers in Europe to develop the next generation of artificial intelligence models, while opening the door to amending its &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/eu-to-build-ai-gigafactories-in-e20bn-push-to-catch-up-with-us-and-china\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU to build AI gigafactories in \u20ac20bn push to catch up with US and China<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}