Europe Must Prioritize AI Over Climate Goals, Data Centre Lobby Warns of China Risk
Updated
Updated · POLITICO Europe · Jun 18
Europe Must Prioritize AI Over Climate Goals, Data Centre Lobby Warns of China Risk
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO Europe · Jun 18
Summary
Brussels-based data centre lobby group EUDCA said Europe should put AI expansion ahead of near-term climate goals or risk losing tech sovereignty to China.
Lex Coors, the association’s president, argued Europe’s power system is not yet capable of supporting advanced AI data centres at the scale required.
That gap could force Europe to rely on new gas-fired power plants—adding carbon emissions—to secure enough electricity for AI infrastructure.
The intervention sharpens a broader European policy trade-off between decarbonization targets and building domestic computing capacity for strategic technologies.