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# DigitalEurope: EU Grids Package underfunds digitalisation for data centres
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-02-18-digitaleurope-grids-package-position/
- Published: 2026-02-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:55:21.000Z
- Description: DigitalEurope welcomes the Commission's European Grids Package for backing grid enhancing technologies, but says its EUR 1.2 trillion investment estimate to 2040 still leaves distribution level digitalisation, which underpins data centre capacity, underfunded.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Policy and law, #news, #verified, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion AI-drafted [DigitalEurope publication, 18 February 2026](https://www.digitaleurope.org/resources/european-grids-package-a-digital-backbone-for-europes-energy/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This is DigitalEurope's own assessment, not a Commission funding decision or adopted rule.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. opinion; says EU grids package leaves distribution level digitalisation for data centres underfunded. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)