June 2, 2026

The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted

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The European Union’s plan to build five massive AI data centres, each with one gigawatt of capacity and approximately 100,000 advanced chips, is stumbling before it starts. The bidding process, originally scheduled for May, has been pushed to July. A...