It shouldn't even be a possible choice, nothing should ever be more important than not destroying the planet. And AI is waaaaaaaay down the list of things that have any kind of weight on the other side of a choice.

Seems like a straightforward choice to me.

Is that an ultimatum? Bye

or risk surrendering its tech sovereignty to China.

China? I worry waaay less about them than about the USA fascists who already own us because we chose digital slavery over sovereignty.

Some countries already took action and ditched Microslop and co for FOSS, but it's a tiny minority so far.

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

🤣🤣🤣🤡

Add to that the fact that most of the gas in Europe comes from the US. Some AI sovereignty that.

Then no data centers, I guess.

But the most power hungry part is the training stage. Use solar and train them during the day time, because that doesn't depend on being operational non stop.

I don't agree with the datacenter lobby and I firmly believe that the EU is more than capable of screwing up both things at the same time.