The AI Gigafactory or: How the EU learned to stop worrying and love the hyperscaler

Published in Internet Policy Review, 11 June 2026

Summary

At the 2025 Paris AI Action Summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the construction of five AI Gigafactories across the EU under the InvestAI framework and tied to a EUR 20 billion public-private funding scheme. These facilities are intended to train industrial-scale frontier AI models…

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