Power, Chips & Regulation: Closing Europe’s Compute Gap
Part of DeepTech Ripples: Debating Europe’s Breakthrough Future
13:15 – 14:00
Thursday, 2 July 2026
Europe is behind on compute, and the gap is widening. Others scale aggressively, the US is already putting GPUs into orbit and we’re stuck navigating regulation and creaking energy grids. This Ripple digs into what it actually takes to build out Europe’s data center infrastructure: energy, permitting and new technologies.