How We Turned Underground Pipes Into Europe's Next AI Empire

The €4.4 Billion Infrastructure Metamorphosis That Nobody Saw Coming

Aug 18, 2025

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Europe's Hidden AI Infrastructure Apocalypse

While everyone obsesses over GPU shortages and model training costs, the real bottleneck is hiding in plain sight. Europe faces a triple-crisis that makes the semiconductor shortage look like a minor inconvenience:

Connectivity Starvation: Europe operates with 85% less AI-grade optical capacity than required fo…

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