EU'S €30B AI PUSH DWARFED BY US TECH SPENDING
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The European Commission plans to fund up to seven AI gigafactories across Europe with €30 billion in public and private investment. Meanwhile, major U.S. tech companies alone are spending over $600 billion on computing infrastructure this year—20 times more.
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