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EU leaders want to press the Commission to speed up the establishment of nine strategic dataspaces in the Union for nine specific sectors. But European data storage remains problematic. Up to 90 percent of it is "warehoused" across the Atlantic. The bloc is therefore planning billions of euros of investment in European clouds, but also in small data centres close to users.
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The chip, which is being developed by the team around Radoslav Danilák, solves not only the efficiency but also the problem of power consumption of data centres. In 2030, they could gobble up up to half of the world's energy resources. US protectionism is getting stronger under Biden, and the EU is still going all out, which is why it doesn't have its own Google, Facebook or Intel, says Danilák.
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Preparations are underway for the resumption of negotiations between Brussels and Washington on data privacy for data flowing across the Atlantic. The EU Court of Justice has restricted the transfer of European data to the United States because of laws on its possible monitoring. US companies are looking for alternatives.
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Washington announces that under new leadership in the White House, it will try to create new frameworks for regulating the digital space, including privacy compliance. However, it may choose a different path than the Union. The latter will be looking for ways to clamp down on the predominantly American tech giants in the coming months.
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According to Ján Mazák, member of the ranking committee, which evaluated candidates for European prosecutors, the composition of the first EPPO is "full of professionalism and moral strength". That gives hope, Mazák says, that the security of EU financial interests will no longer be just "platonic".
