There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to. The growing competition for R&I project grants overburdens the R&I system, generates bursts of activity leading to unsustainable results, and fuels the much-maligned growth of precarious labour. This trend needs to be turned around, and not by means of the usual patchwork but through a fundamental rethinking of the system for R&I funding. We believe that a very promising avenue for such a turnaround would be a shift from project-based funding to continuous funding for R&I networks. :cafuda:

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Rethinking R&I Funding: Opting for Continuity

There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to.

Can Europe sustain the growth of AI data centres, or does the already overcrowded electrical grid risk being clogged even more?

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Policy Voices ｜ The challenges of AI data centres in Europe [2173170906]

Originally published on Friends Of Europe. Republished here for perennity. As the uptake of Artificial Intelligence (AI) increases in many sectors ...

As the uptake of Artificial Intelligence (AI) increases in many sectors of the economy, all of that infrastructure has to be supported somehow: that is where data centres come in. The most advanced economies are rushing to scale up their digital infrastructure, yet industry laggard Europe is also behind in this aspect, compared to places like the US and China.