Europe has become very good at one thing: calling dependency “sovereignty”. Host it in Europe. Wrap it in legal language. Add the word sovereign to the slide deck. And voilà…Suddenly everyone pretends the problem is solved. It is not. If the control layer is foreign, if the model layer is foreign, if the orchestration layer is foreign,
Europe’s AI challenge is often described as a shortage of models, capital, or compute. Yet some of Europe’s most valuable AI inputs already exist inside hospitals, factories, energy systems, public administrations, and critical infrastructure. They are simply not available to be gathered into one central training repository. That is not a weakness. It is the