The European Union will invest € 150,000 million in technology projects

Among the fundamental pillars towards which the investment will be focused are the Gaia-X cloud platform and Artificial Intelligence

Coping with recovery from the devastating effects of the coronavirus is an uphill task. The European Union advances strategies with millionaire investments to achieve sustainable development.

One of the projects is the so-called “Next Generation EU”, based on new technologies and supported by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who in a recent meeting explained that the project is one of the fundamental pillars for economy recovery of the region.

In this sense, he announced that the Commission has allocated the sum of € 150,000 million to invest in technological developments, among which Artificial Intelligence, the ambitious cloud data storage platform (proposed by France) called Gaia-X and the infrastructure sector.

Regarding AI, Ursula von der Leyen stated: “We want to establish rules (in AI) that put people first. Algorithms should not be a black box, and there should be clear rules if something goes wrong.”

The Gaia-X platform has been rated as the greatest digital aspiration of the moment. It has been said that it aims to become an option for France, Germany and 22 large European companies that will allow them to free themselves from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

The official also focused on aspects such as data collection and management that are important for sectors such as energy and health, in addition to 5G and 6G communication networks.

M.Pino

Source: xataka

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