Commission feedback deadline: Cloud and AI Development Act
Why it matters
Proposed act to triple EU data processing capacity and boost secure cloud infrastructure over 5–7 years addresses Europe's strategic dependence on non-EU cloud and AI providers, directly shaping industrial policy and digital sovereignty in a sector critical to economic competitiveness and strategic autonomy.
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.
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