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Article 4
Operational objectives of the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives
1. Under operational objective 1, the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall:
(a) advance energy- and water-efficiency technologies for data centres, including
innovative cooling, next-generation direct current data centres, waste heat
utilisation solutions, and energy storage systems;
(b) promote the integration of emerging quantum computing technologies for
cloud and AI computing infrastructure operations;
(c) develop AI-powered technologies for optimising server efficiency, utilisation
rates and computing infrastructure operations;
(d) design and optimise cloud and edge AI infrastructures to ensure effective
integration with energy grids and to increase theirflexibility;
(e) leverage data centres as anchor clients for advanced energy management
systems harnessing diverse energy sources, including small modular reactors
and clean hydrogen, alongside efficient energy storage solutions;
(f) deploy test beds and pilot lines to integrate and test technologies developed
under points (a) to (e), covering energy-efficient semiconductor and quantum
computing prototypes.
2. Under operational objective 2, the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall:
(a) develop and pilot secure, resilient and performant open cloud computing stacks
covering on-device edge, connectivity, data and AI tools, backend and service
layers for strategic sectors;
(b) develop AI-optimised servers and baseline software based on processors,
accelerators and quantum accelerators designed and manufactured in the
Union, alongside next-generation ultra-high density and long-term data
storage;
(c) boost data availability for AI via open-source middleware platforms
underpinning common European data spaces;
(d) foster the creation of open-source software foundations supporting open-source
components;
(e) establish a catalogue of European open cloud computing solutions developed
under points (a) to (d) of this paragraph.
3. Under operational objective 3, the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall support
pioneering projects in frontier AI that develop frontier AI models and systems as
strategic assets, including in key sectors such as cybersecurity.
4. Under operational objective 4, the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall:
(a) accelerate the development of a European physical AI stack, supporting model
training and system development and deployment, in particular for robotics and
autonomous vehicles and drones;
(b) facilitate access to, and the collection and preparation of, specific datasets for
physical AI;
(c) support the development, testing and validation in real-world environments of
physical AI models and systems.
5. Under operational objective 5, the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall:
(a) accelerate the development and uptake of sectoral AI models and systems
across the Union’s strategic industrial sectors;
(b) facilitate access to the necessary computing resources and AI tools required to
develop and operationalise AI models and systems tailored to industrial sector
needs;
(c) enable secure large-scale data pooling for collaborative AI training through
technologies enhancing privacy and preserving confidentiality.
6. Under their operational objective 6, the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall:
(a) support the development of advanced resilient and secure platforms for the
development, deployment and orchestration of advanced AI agents at scale;
(b) facilitate the development of targeted testing and experimentation
methodologies of advanced AI agents and their orchestration throughout their
lifecycle.
7. Under operational objective 7 the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall:
(a) accelerate the technological development and uptake of AI models and systems
in critical public sector domains;
(b) develop AI models and systems that increase the effectiveness of public service
delivery and accessibility for the general public, improve decision-making, and
simplify administrative procedures;
(c) promote the sharing and reusing of training data and AI models across the
Union’s public services;
(d) facilitate secure, privacy-enhancing health data reuse for AI models and tools
in healthcare;
(e) facilitate the development, testing and deployment of AI models and tools in
the automotive sector, including for autonomous driving.
8. Under operational objective 8 the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives shall:
(a) promote the broad adoption of AI by private and public sector organisations,
including SMEs and SMCs, through the network of Experience and
Acceleration Centres for AI (‘Centres for AI’);
(b) develop a common cloud and AI curriculum, drawing on the network of
Centres for AI and other relevant European initiatives;
(c) promote the sharing of public sector data centre services and cloud computing
services by supporting a European public sector cloud federation (‘EuroCloud
Federation’);
(d) support the procurement of data centre services and cloud computing services
for Union entities and public sector bodies.