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EU experts put compute and energy at the center of frontier-AI sovereignty.

The European Commission's AI Office published findings from more than 100 experts who said the next one to two years may be decisive for Europe's frontier-AI position. The report identifies computing infrastructure and its energy supply as the most urgent priorities, alongside growth capital, training-data legal certainty, talent, and trusted access to overseas frontier models.

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The European Commission's AI Office published findings from more than 100 experts who said the next one to two years may be decisive for Europe's frontier-AI position. The report identifies computing infrastructure and its energy supply as the most urgent priorities, alongside growth capital, training-data legal certainty, talent, and trusted access to overseas frontier models.

Pressure point

This is an expert-forum synthesis, not an adopted investment or regulatory program. The AI Office is describing a strategic gap while many of the spending, permitting, copyright, capital-market, and partnership decisions remain with separate EU and national institutions.

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Specific 2030 targets, AI-gigafactory procurement, grid and generation commitments, copyright and data-protection guidance, growth-stage financing, talent measures, trusted-partner agreements, and evidence that European models gain durable usage.

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