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Draghi calls on Europe's largest companies to pool compute purchases to finance data centres

In a Financial Times column, former ECB president Mario Draghi argued Europe can be sovereign on data but not chips or frontier models, put the EU at under 5 percent of world AI compute, and urged large companies to pool multiyear compute commitments as ASML, Capgemini and Amadeus did with Mistral.

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Verified Opinion AI-drafted Financial Times, opinion column by Mario Draghi, 11 September 2026

What it does not test. Does not establish that any company, government or EU body has acted on the proposal; an opinion column commits no money and changes no 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 column; no instrument, money or capacity moves, so weight 0 by rule. European Sovereignty Index

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