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Luca from Euronews: on the AI envoy announcement: why did you choose to create the post?
(fyi: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/es/ip_26_1243)
Virkkunen: focus will be industrial AI.
(this is good news in my opinion: a focus on industrial AI will actually provide return on investment, unlike LLMs! See this article: https://jmar.is/jekyll/update/2025/10/13/How-Europe-wins-the-AI-race.html )
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Question time! ⬇️
The Guardian: What is the scale of the Commission's ambition on semiconductors ? What does it look like ? 1/3 ? 50%? What about the strategic project on advanced manufacturing of AI chips?
Virkkunen: Quantity matters but quality is also important, we are already good at this, but we will focus on investing on design capacity and manufacturing in the future. Aim for pilot phase in 2030. The new chips act focusses more on the demand side, pushes use of European chips⬇️
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Calls to accelerate the rollout of smart meters and smart grids across the Union.
Announces the development of an AI model for the energy sector and a EU framework for cross-border energy data exchange, to make the grid more flexible.
"This can help deliver savings across europe".
He also raises the issue of the cybersecurity of energy installations.⬇️
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Announces a European rating scheme for datacenters. The Commission focus will be on grid integration, clean supply and flexibility, together with water use and environmental standards.
The goal: grow digital economies without raising energy costs.
Good news: AI can also be used to help steer and control generation. Digitalisation of grid can bring a lot of benefits.
Also highlights how demand flexibility can cut bills⬇️
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He highlights the issue of Datacenter energy consumption at a time when we need to electrify our whole economy, saying in 2024 datacentrers in the EU currently use enough power to power 20mn households, by 2030 this demand is expected to more than double⬇️
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Dan opens by highlighting the energy cost of AI, but says that if we want to be leaders, we need to ensure it brings positive change in our societies: we need to do this in a European way.
We need to manage new energy demand in a responsible way while making the best of the new opportunities at our fingertips.
He says, "There can be no digital sovereignty without energy sovereignty".
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Virkunnen ends: this is a defining moment for Europe's future: a future where our factories can run on european compute, our hospitals are free to choose ai developed in europe, our innovators can use european software to develop ideas, our startups can grow into global champions right here in europe.
This is a choice we must make now together.
She hands the floor to the EU's energy commissioner.⬇️
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Now she is highlighting the need for investment, saying Europe is falling behind and has a critical investment gap.
She says public funding is a good start, but taxpayers can't foot the bill alone! Private capital is urgently needed!
To bridge the gap, a consultation will begin on building a "European Equity Capacity" to make sure European companies get the funding they need to compete and win on the global stage.⬇️
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Onto the Open Source strategy: she highlights Europes huge potential: the 3mn European Open Source contributors and 500 for profit Open Source companies.
But we spend €260bn on non-EU digital products and services: its time we harness what we have to take control of our future.
This is the aim of the strategy. It aims to strengthen the autonomy of users, companies and public orgs.⬇️
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On Cloud & AI:
1. we need infra to meet demand: we want to triple AI infra.
2. This is what CAIDA is about.
3. Sovereignty is important :we need to make sure our vital data is in Europe.
She talks about "reliable european providers". but doesn't detail⬇️
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On Chips:
1. Chips act 1 was good, progress was made, but the landscape has shifted because of tech developments: we need to take a share of the AI chip market too!
2. Chips act 2 will stimulate demand and consolidate supply chains, getting rid of administrative burdens.
3. We will boost demand for European Chips by changing supply system (?)
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There are 4 elements to the package:
Chips act 2
Cloud and AI development act
Open Source Strategy
Strategic roadmap for digitalisation and AI in Energy
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She highlights the mistake of "borrowing instead of building, adopting faster than developing, and consuming more than creating". Says this has to change.
She says Europe has everything we need to compete ourselves and great potential in our startups and scaleups.
There are 3 objectives:
Transform our economy by driving new tech
Reenforce supply chain resilience
European way for tech sovereignty⬇️
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Henna opens by defining tech sovereignty, not as protectionism, but as not being dependent on "one company or one country", and being able to make its own choices. She highlights geopolitics and tech now go hand in hand.
She highlights the fact that currently, we rely on foreign companies for 80% of our tech, and this is a problem for autonomy but also our economies
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Henna Virkunnen has started the press conference, by announcing the appointment of a new advisor on AI. I couldn't catch the name but i'll get back to this!⬇️
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As an FYI, the strategy itself is now public, too! You can find it here!⬇️
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/detail?ref=COM(2026)503&lang=en
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