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Lagarde on Europe AI dependence

Sovereignty over AI doesn't come from writing good rules. Christine Lagarde is pointing out that Europe can regulate the tech brilliantly and still not own the pipes it runs on. Compute, the models themselves, energy, data centers, the capital behind all of it. Those are the pieces that decide who actually controls things. If AI ends up as essential as electricity or the internet, then leaning on outside providers for all of it turns into a real strategic weakness. Nobody is saying Europe needs to clone every US AI company. The point is simpler: it needs to be able to build its own infrastructure. The question she's raising is why this wasn't asked sooner. What happens when the technology your economy depends on is controlled somewhere else?

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Lagarde on Europe AI dependence

Sovereignty over AI doesn't come from writing good rules. Christine Lagarde is pointing out that Europe can regulate the tech brilliantly and still not own the pipes it runs on. Compute, the models themselves, energy, data centers, the capital behind all of it. Those are the pieces that decide who actually controls things. If AI ends up as essential as electricity or the internet, then leaning on outside providers for all of it turns into a real strategic weakness. Nobody is saying Europe needs to clone every US AI company. The point is simpler: it needs to be able to build its own infrastructure. The question she's raising is why this wasn't asked sooner. What happens when the technology your economy depends on is controlled somewhere else?

2mo