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gman83today at 7:17 AM2 repliesview on HN

No, Europe doesn't have the capital markets required to build the required data centers. Underwriting gigawatt data centers and frontier models demands a fully realized European Capital Markets Union, a single energy regulator with cross-border grid integration, and shared fiscal borrowing power.


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grim_iotoday at 8:23 AM

There is a big difference in compute requirements between EU and US.

EU needs to meet their own demand, the US wants to be the global provider.

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pferdetoday at 7:31 AM

Thank god.