The European Commission has unveiled its new Tech Sovereignty Package, a set of initiatives designed to strengthen Europe’s digital autonomy in strategic areas such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and data centres. The initiative aims to reduce Europe’s dependence on third-country technologies while reinforcing its capacity to develop competitive and resilient digital infrastructures.

Among the package’s flagship measures are the Chips Act 2.0, which will boost Europe’s capabilities in advanced semiconductor production, and a new Cloud and Artificial Intelligence Development Act, aimed at tripling Europe’s data centre capacity over the next five to seven years. The proposal will facilitate the deployment of sustainable, high-capacity cloud infrastructures capable of meeting the rapidly growing computing demand driven by AI.

The package also introduces a European Open Source Strategy to strengthen technological autonomy by promoting open-source solutions in areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and semiconductors. In parallel, the Commission has presented a roadmap to accelerate the digitalisation of Europe’s energy system through AI and secure data sharing, improving grid management, optimising energy consumption and enabling the integration of new digital infrastructures.

The initiative represents a major step forward for the EU’s AI Continent Action Plan. As AI applications require ever-growing volumes of high-quality data, securely shared under common governance rules, data spaces become an essential enabling infrastructure. By fostering trusted collaboration between businesses and public administrations, data spaces will play a key role in supporting Europe’s digital sovereignty and strengthening its competitiveness in the global data economy.