Recital (36)

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Official source: COM(2026) 502 final — Proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act

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To achieve the Union’s AI ambitions, it is necessary to strengthen and invest in digital
            infrastructures, including cloud and edge capacity enabling training, fine-tuning,
            deployment and real-time operation. The deployment of data centres across the Union
            is lagging and remains concentrated in a limited number of established hubs, creating
            structural imbalances between Member States and inefficiencies such as higher costs,
            increased latency for peripheral regions, unequal opportunities for businesses and
            slower digital transformation. Increasing and geographically balancing data centre
            capacities across the Union is also key to reducing dependencies on external
            infrastructures, thus mitigating economic security risks and supporting the
            competitiveness, resilience and sovereignty of the Union.

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