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Europe’s edge ambitions: IPCEI CIS pump-priming AI, cloud sovereignty at regional scale

2025-06-03T16:58:00

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Source: Freepik

In depth: As the EU intensifies efforts to foster sovereign, multi-provider edge cloud, IPCEI CIS emerges as a cornerstone for regional AI and digital infra via 8ra initiative with around €8bn of public-private investment. Including insights from Orange, DT, other industry leaders…

This article includes:

  • Themes: AI inferencing; Capex investment; Cloud edge continuum; Data sovereignty; Edge cloud; Edge federation; Edge infrastructure; Edge orchestration; Federated orchestration; GenAI model; Green energies; Interoperable cloud; Kubernetes; MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing); Multi provider cloud; Network edge; Open source innovation; Private partnerships; Public funding; Recovery and Resilience Facility; Sovereign digital infrastructure; Telco cloud; Virtual machine.
  • Events: EU Digital Decade target; FutureNet World; IPCEI CIS approval (December 2023); Telco Cloud & Edge Forum.
  • People: Alberto P. Martí; Lara Grohe; Laurent Leboucher; Nicolas Homo; Philippe Ensarguet.
  • Geographic: Africa; Europe; European Union (EU).
  • Organisations: 4iG; 8ra; Atos; Deutsche Telekom; European Commission; IPCEI CIS; Linux Foundation Europe; OpenNebula Systems; Orange Group; Project Sylva; Red Hat; SAP; Siemens; STACKIT Cloud; SUSE; Telefónica España; TIM; Tiscali.

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