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.

The plans call for the private sector to finance most of the projects, with EU and country subsidies together contributing as much as one-third of the ...