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Europe Scales Down AI Ambitions With Smaller Data Center Tender

Europe Scales Down AI Ambitions With Smaller Data Center Tender
Bloomberg Technology Thursday 18 June 2026, 10:52 UTC By Paula Doenecke, Gian Volpicelli 1 min read
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Europe Scales Down AI Ambitions With Smaller Data Center Tender The European Union downsized plans for data centers to support artificial intelligence, outlining a call for tenders that includes smaller-scale facilities than originally envisioned. The bloc is seeking bids to build four data centers with at least 25,000 GPUs and three with at least 40,000 processors in the first phase, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t...

Europe Scales Down AI Ambitions With Smaller Data Center Tender The European Union downsized plans for data centers to support artificial intelligence, outlining a call for tenders that includes smaller-scale facilities than originally envisioned. The bloc is seeking bids to build four data centers with at least 25,000 GPUs and three with at least 40,000 processors in the first phase, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. Tagesspiegel previously reported the scaled-back program.
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