Expected to be a cornerstone of the European digital strategy, the Cloud and AI Development Act (CAIDA) has faced repeated delays and remains shrouded in unusual uncertainty. Despite ambitious industrial goals, the Commission has yet to provide many concrete details on the content of its future proposal Faced with a growing shortage of computing capacity in Europe, amid increased competition with the United States and China, the European Commission is preparing a bill presented as strategic: the Cloud and AI Development Act (CAIDA). The European executive aims to address clearly identified obstacles, such as access to energy, land, or water, administrative burdens, high costs, and market fragmentation. Indeed, there are numerous barriers to the development of European cloud infrastructure and data centers. In this context, it is difficult for smaller European…
