Chronological monitoring (newest to oldest), 28 news items. Focus on Belgium, France, and Europe. Updated: Wednesday, 25 March 2026.
The second EU-Japan Digital Week (23 to 30 March) kicked off joint workstreams on AI, semiconductors, high-performance computing, and standards, with a clear focus on resilience and strategic technological autonomy.
Read sourceBacked by CISPE, they call on the Commission to set strict requirements on governance, control, and infrastructure resilience for cloud and AI, to limit "sovereignty washing" in the Cloud and AI Development Act.
Read sourceThe European Commission's official Digibyte confirms an amendment to the Digital Europe programme to continue deploying strategic digital capacities across the EU, a direct signal for sovereign AI industrialization.
Read sourceAMD and Upstage announced the deployment of Instinct MI355 GPUs and a one-year roadmap for LLMs and document-processing engines, including contributions to Korea's government-led sovereign foundation model project.
Read sourceAt GTC 2026, HPE announced air-gapped deployment modes and scaling up to 128 GPUs per rack to address sovereignty, compliance, and resilience requirements in regulated and critical industries.
Read sourceThe Council adopted its mandate on the AI digital omnibus package: targeted simplification of obligations, adjusted timelines for some high-risk systems, and harmonized implementation, with an explicit objective of strengthening European digital sovereignty.
Read sourceNxtGen announced a sovereign AI infrastructure push for enterprises with a technology consortium (Dell, NVIDIA, CommScope and Vertiv), aimed at expanding local capacity and data residency.
Read sourceThe two companies announced a collaboration on military AI systems in Europe, highlighting a concrete push toward sovereign strategic AI capabilities.
Read sourceAtos introduced an operating model designed to move agentic AI from pilots to production in critical environments, with governance, security, and sovereign control over data and decision workflows.
Read sourceThe partners announced a joint R&D program for a sovereign collaborative AI workspace, locally operated and designed for sensitive public and industrial use cases.
Read sourceSkeleton Technologies and Taiwania Capital announced a strategic investment partnership to accelerate resilient energy infrastructure considered critical for sovereign AI data center deployment in Europe and Taiwan.
Read sourceThe company announced a technical leadership move to accelerate a cloud and GPU-as-a-service offer focused on European digital sovereignty.
Read sourceThe group launched an AI factory offer focused on security, governance and industrialization to accelerate enterprise adoption.
Read sourceThe German startup targets 30 MW from 2027, with a potential ramp-up to 120 MW to reinforce locally operated European capacity.
Read sourceEviden makes its external KMS available on a sovereign cloud operated in the EU.
Read sourceThe partnership brings Falcon to STACKIT's European cloud infrastructure, with EU-operated processing to support stricter sovereignty and compliance requirements.
Read sourceNew Excel module and financial data integrations for analytics workflows.
Read sourceUnveiled at MWC 2026, this Horizon Europe project aims to build Europe’s first large-scale federated telco-edge-cloud stack to reduce dependence on non-EU providers and reinforce digital sovereignty, with 87 consortium members involved.
Read sourceThe companies announced an MoU at MWC 2026 to deploy locally operated sovereign AI capabilities aligned with data residency and local governance requirements across VEON markets.
Read sourceNVIDIA's global AI conference takes place from March 16 to March 19, 2026, in San Jose.
Read sourceAWS will distribute Frontier, and OpenAI will consume 2 GW of Trainium capacity.
Read sourceNew round with SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon to accelerate AI infrastructure.
Read sourceThe Data Center segment reaches a new quarterly record in fiscal year 2026.
Read sourceThe Commission's AI Office launches a task force to harmonize code implementation before the August 2026 deadline.
Read sourceThe new European framework officially extends the initiative's AI and quantum goals.
Read sourceAdoption of a EuroHPC amendment to accelerate AI infrastructure in Europe.
Read sourceNew joint offering to move AI pilots to large-scale production.
Read sourceThe Commission publishes a voluntary framework for compliance of general-purpose AI models.
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