Europe can't build one giant AI datacentre — distributed training across sites may fill the gap
gklambauer · x · 2026-10-23
Writing for Accelerate Europe, Rafael Lipcsey argues Europe may be unable to build a datacentre large enough for frontier training — and may not need to. He lays out how distributed training across multiple smaller sites can pool Europe's limited compute and relieve bottlenecks in the continent's AI strategy.
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