From our earliest days, Google has been obliged to Europe. Over the past decade, we have invested billions in Europe’s digital infrastructure to strengthen its resilience, security and efficiency: We have built 7 advanced data centers here, developed 13 cloud areas and launched 6 subsan cables connecting Europe to the world. We do vital engineering tasks in the EU that contribute to Google’s global products – and we have brought these products to help European citizens and businesses connect to the world.
At the same time, we have worked to ensure that Europeans have the skills to implement these tools and take advantage of digital transformation. Since 2015, Google has trained 13 million people throughout Europe, and we continue to invest in talent by supporting 17 universities in 12 European countries through our promise at the Europe Commission Cyberskills Academy.
Finally, we work with European companies such as Schwarz Group, T-Systems, Telecom Italia, Thales (S3NS) to provide AI solutions and sovereign cloud offers that comply with European values ​​and data stays requirements. This ensures that customers have control over their data and are not locked into any single supplier and promote genuine digital sovereignty.
All this – our investments in infrastructure, people, partners in Europe – are based on a long -lasting belief that Google’s mission to make the world’s information universally accessible and useful contribute to Europe. And this conviction has not changed.
A generational opportunity for Europe
We are safer than ever in the relevance of Europe for our mission with the recent breakthroughs in AI, the most significant technological development of our lifetime. AI is the key to achieving the bold ambitions described in the EU’s competitiveness from increasing innovation and economic growth, to promoting pure energy and increasing security in Europe.
President Draghi convincingly noted that 70% of EU-US GDP per year. The inhabitant can be explained by lower productivity and linked to ongoing challenges around innovation and the technology investment climate in Europe.
The urgent path forward to AI -adoption
While Europe is in favor of tremendously from AI, it is currently tracking in AI adoption compared to the United States, China and other leading global economies.
What actions should be taken?
First, European governments have to lead an example and actively embrace AI in their own processes and adopt the ALT-of-Government, AI-FIRST ENTRIES.
They also need to adopt a simplified regulatory structure that controls AI and Tech. Realizing the EU’s digital potential requires simplification, scalability and harmonization of technical rules. This means prioritizing the implementation of existing legislation before adding new rules, adjusting reporting requirements and eliminating multiple layers of contradictory or outdated rules. And the new rules passed, like AI law, should not become a barrier to Europeans capable of accessing the most groundbreaking AI models.
Finally, AI adoption requires Europe to embrace partnership. No country can lead on AI alone. The inputs for AI success are global.
The countries winning in AI will capture these global components, find their place in the supply chain and enable their businesses and citizens to exploit them.