@VraserX: The EU just ordered another €388M AI supercomputer because demand is outrunning supply. This is what “AI sovereignty” a…
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The EU has ordered an AI supercomputer worth €388 million to meet growing demand and assert AI sovereignty through compute resources rather than just rhetoric.
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The EU just ordered another €388M AI supercomputer because demand is outrunning supply.
This is what “AI sovereignty” actually looks like.
Not speeches.
Compute.
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