EU Council agrees on regulation to expand EuroHPC’s supercomputing role, adding AI factories to boost Europe’s AI ecosystem and support startups.
The Council of the European Union announced plans to amend the current regulation that governs the European High Performing Computer Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC), which dictates supercomputer use for artificial intelligence (AI) development.
On May 24, the EU updated the regulation to add the objective of developing and operating local AI factories. According to the EU, such an undertaking would provide additional infrastructure for AI supercomputing services.
The Commission's proposal, which initiated this amendment, builds on the foundational work of EuroHPC, an entity established in 2018 to lead European supercomputing initiatives.
