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Article 3
General objective of the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives
1. The Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall pursue the general objective of
promoting research and innovation activities and achieving large-scale capacity
throughout the Union’s cloud and AI ecosystem, by:
(a) supporting the development and deployment of cutting-edge cloud and AI
technologies, including next-generation resource-efficient data centre
technologies, open cloud computing stack technologies, frontier AI, and
physical and industrial AI;
(b) reinforcing the Union’s data centre and cloud capacity to meet the growing
demands driven by AI, foster innovation and ensure the resilience of the digital
infrastructure;
(c) stimulating the Union’s demand and promoting the deployment and uptake of
cloud and AI technologies across the public sector, and the private sector, in
line with the digital target of digital transformation of businesses, established
by Decision (EU) 2022/2481.
2. The Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall pursue the following operational
objectives:
(a) supporting the development and deployment of advanced data centre
technologies incorporating principles of energy efficiency and resource
efficiency by design and throughout operations (operational objective 1);
(b) supporting the development and deployment of cloud computing stacks
supporting the Union’s technological autonomy (operational objective 2);
(c) advancing Union’s capabilities in frontier AI (operational objective 3);
(d) advancing Union’s capabilities in physical AI models and systems and
fostering their deployment across the Union’s strategic sectors (operational
objective 4);
(e) accelerating the development and uptake of industrial AI across the Union’s
strategic sectors (operational objective 5);
(f) supporting the development of advanced platforms for the large-scale
deployment of AI agents (operational objective 6);
(g) increasing the development and adoption of AI models and systems across the
Union’s public sectors (operational objective 7);
(h) increasing the adoption of AI technologies at regional and local level, and the
uptake of cloud computing services provided by European cloud computing
service providers (operational objective 8).