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Published January 20, 2026 | Video Starts at 28:36

Third, we have available capacities for more data centers and computing capacities and we are delivering the agenda announced one year ago. So we are building these capacities and Europe was lagging behind the US and others on this field [AI]. We have tenants, very good data scientists, mathematicians and so on. And we are increasing our training programs and our capacities and we have several hubs being identified and we have a critical ecosystem with LLM champions. (28:36–28:44)

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Asserts that Europe was previously behind the US and others in AI.

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