The EU has spent a fair bit of money building up compute in Spain. Not really seeing them intervening when someone else pitches in with their own money. Chances are it wouldn’t happen without the legal requirements to keep data in Europe, anyway.
Supercomputers are a different beast than AI data centres. MareNostrum uses 1.3MW, that’s peanuts and easily used up by hot showers, Barcelona has a lot of showers. It’s also only the 4th largest EuroHPC computer. Private investors apparently plan to build a Gigawatt worth of compute in Aragon.
Is there really no european leader with a back bone
The EU has spent a fair bit of money building up compute in Spain. Not really seeing them intervening when someone else pitches in with their own money. Chances are it wouldn’t happen without the legal requirements to keep data in Europe, anyway.
Supercomputers are a different beast than AI data centres. MareNostrum uses 1.3MW, that’s peanuts and easily used up by hot showers, Barcelona has a lot of showers. It’s also only the 4th largest EuroHPC computer. Private investors apparently plan to build a Gigawatt worth of compute in Aragon.