Training AI models requires vast amounts of computer power and data storage capacity.<\/p>\n
Microsoft dispatched its president, Brad Smith, to Brussels to unveil the plans. He struck a conciliatory tone at a time when the U.S. administration and other U.S. tech executives have launched a full-frontal attack on some of the EU\u2019s tech rulebooks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understand that European laws apply to our business practices in Europe, just as local laws apply to local practices in the United States,\u201d Smith said in a blog post, referring to European competition law and the EU\u2019s new digital competition rulebook, the Digital Markets Act. <\/a><\/p>\n Smith added that Microsoft wants to be a \u201cvoice of reason,\u201d promoting \u201cstable\u201d ties across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s pitch could be on a collision course with a growing movement pushing<\/a> for a European tech infrastructure, and growing calls<\/a> by European governments to build a sovereign cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Training AI models requires vast amounts of computer power and data storage capacity. Microsoft dispatched its president, Brad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1942,26368,14035,1442,2814,32054,3677,7157,2000,299,5187,6084,2817,2441,1199,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-62440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-brad-smith","10":"tag-cloud","11":"tag-competition","12":"tag-data","13":"tag-data-centers","14":"tag-digital","15":"tag-digital-markets-act","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-infrastructure","20":"tag-intelligence","21":"tag-markets","22":"tag-services","23":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114425966346812443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}