The EU's 20 billion euro plan for five AI data centres faces delays and funding gaps, with bidding pushed to July, interest narrowing from 70 companies to 10, and consortia reconsidering.

Ardian joins the AION consortium's €10B bid to build an AI gigafactory in France, part of the EU's push to compete with US and China in AI compute.

The EU's 20 billion euro plan for five AI data centres faces delays and funding gaps, with bidding pushed to July, interest narrowing from 70 companies to 10, and consortia…