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Commission feedback deadline: Cloud and AI Development Act

20 September 2026 · institutional · confidence: confirmed · status: scheduled · impact 4/5 · EU relevance 4/5

Why it matters

Proposed act aims to triple EU data processing capacity and boost domestic cloud/AI infrastructure investment to close Europe's competitive gap against US and China in critical digital infrastructure and AI compute.

What to watch

• No announcement lands on this date — the feedback window simply closes. Next public step: the Commission summarises the feedback received and moves the file towards adoption.
• Process stage to verify: adoption workflow.
• Commission summary: As part of the ‘AI Continent’ initiative, the EU is launching a new act to address Europe’s gap in cloud and AI infrastructure capacity through: research & innovation to accelerate the greening of compute infrastructures and data centres for cloud and AI; facilitation of private investment in sustainable cloud and AI capacity, to triple the EU’s data processing capacity in the next 5 to 7 years; actions to increase the secure processing capacity of EU-based cloud providers.

Sources

• European Commission Have your say: Cloud and AI Development Act
• European Commission Have your say

Themes: Politics, Economy, Trade, Technology · Regions: EU, Global · Actors: European Commission, DG CNECT

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