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Article 7
National cloud and AI strategies
1. By [same day as entry into force plus one year], Member States shall establish
national cloud and AI strategies (the ‘national strategies’).
2. The national strategies shall include at least the following:
(a) key objectives and priorities for cloud and AI adoption, in line with the ‘AI
first’ principle, as well as a governance and monitoring framework to achieve
those objectives and priorities;
(b) measures to accelerate the development and adoption of cloud and AI at
national, regional and local level, particularly among public sector bodies,
SMEs and SMCs, including by supporting the Centres for AI referred to in
Article 5 as entry points to the European AI innovation ecosystem;
(c) measures to support the broad deployment and uptake of AI in strategic
industrial and public sectors, including in healthcare, energy and mobility;
(d) measures to support the deployment of data centre capacity, with a particular
focus on high-value data centres delivering significant economic and societal
benefits while adhering to high environmental and energy-efficiency standards;
(e) measures to invest in high-intensity computing infrastructure, including AI
factories, AI gigafactories and quantum computers as strategic national and
cross-border assets supporting research, development and industrial AI
deployment across strategic sectors;
(f) measures to support the development of cloud and AI capabilities and promote
excellence and innovation, including through public procurement measures,
and public procurement of innovation measures set out in Article 33;
(g) measures to support the development of cloud computing stack technologies
built upon open hardware and software to strengthen technological sovereignty
and enhance the competitiveness of strategic European industries;
(h) measures to ensure the accessibility of high-quality data for AI development,
notably by preventing data bottlenecks encountered by organisations.
3. National strategies shall be consistent with the objectives of this Regulation
4. Member States shall ensure that their national strategies are consistent with, and
contribute to, the associated digital targets established under Article 4 of Decision
(EU) 2022/2481.
5. The Member States shall notify the Commission of their national strategies within
three months of their adoption. Member States shall assess their national strategies at
least every three years on the basis of key performance indicators and, where
necessary, update them. The Commission shall monitor the adoption and revision of
the national strategies.
6. The European Artificial Intelligence Board established by Regulation (EU)
2024/1689 (the ‘AI Board’) shall advise and assist the Member States as regards the
coordination of national strategies. The AI Board shall facilitate exchange of best
practices among Member States.