EU launches call for up to seven AI Gigafactories

The Commission opened a call for up to seven large AI-compute facilities, supported by as much as €10 billion in EU and national funding and intended to unlock at least €20 billion in private capital. The facilities are meant to support frontier-model training, fine-tuning and inference for companies, researchers and public bodies.

Impact: sovereign compute is becoming industrial policy. Success depends on energy, networking, procurement, utilisation and skilled operators—not chip count alone.