BRUSSELS —Europe must prioritize artificial intelligence over its immediate climate ambitions or risk surrendering its tech sovereignty to China.
That’s the view of the president of the European Data Centre Association, which lobbies the EU on behalf of data center companies.
Lex Coors said that Europe’s energy system is not ready to power advanced AI data centers, and Europe may need to fall back on new carbon-emitting gas power plants to meet its tech sovereignty goals.
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“The grid is not ready, [small modular nuclear reactors] won’t be on time. So now what?” he said.
