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NEW: Europe is reportedly downsizing its AI ambitions again, cutting its data center plans to a fraction of what was originally promised.
The European Union's 2025 plan to back five AI gigafactories with €20 billion now faces reported delays and funding gaps that have cooled private-sector interest, with complex bidding rules and shifting timelines leaving the scale of any eventual infrastructure uncertain.
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NEW: Europe is reportedly downsizing its AI ambitions again, cutting its data center plans to a fraction of what was originally promised.
Lengthy tenders and moving requirements have reportedly dampened enthusiasm from potential partners, turning an ambitious public push into a slower, less certain process.
Without clearer signals on timing of subsidies or actual need, backers remain hesitant even as the original high-performance computing targets encounter ongoing regional constraints.
Many users criticized Europe's downsizing of AI data center plans as foolish backtracking that leaves the region stuck in the Stone Age and as AI vassals to the US or China.
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im sad to report that its over for europoors
NEW: Europe is reportedly downsizing its AI ambitions again, cutting its data center plans to a fraction of what was originally promised.

@scaling01 this is fucking mental, there is no other words

@scaling01 Aren't you in this bucket too?

@scaling01 Europeans have always been good at philosophy - "how do you downsize nothing?"

@scaling01 We Brits left the EU and yet we're also still following them into this future where we're either American or Chinese AI vassals. Just fucking wonderful

@tunguz Kinda feels like they're backtracking big time lol

@scaling01 we really are fucking stupid and still think we are great because we're rich because once we were smart
And 90% of the blame goes specifically to Germany and France, countries like Switzerland or Norway fo have capable governments after all

@scaling01 😢 i wonder if this is as a result of the meeting w/ AI heads + Trump yesterday

@scaling01 *us, europoors

@scaling01 I think it is reasonable given inflated gpu prices

@scaling01 It's over for everyone whose not China or US

@scaling01 I was hoping the G7 summit would have galvanized Europe, I guess not

@tunguz

@scaling01 At this point, I wanna die or move to Asia

@scaling01 Europe really wants to stay in the Stone Age

@scaling01 @HozhoNava This is everything I need to say.

@scaling01 you seem to be forgetting we're no. #1 in AI regulation

@tunguz NGMI

@scaling01 Were going local baby

@scaling01 Aren't you a europoor yourself?