Nvidia CEO Encourages Europe's Lagging AI Sector, Encourages Data Center Buildout

Europe has only about 5% of the world's AI computing capacity, versus 75% in the U.S.

Nvidia CEO Encourages Europe's Lagging AI Sector, Encourages Data Center Buildout
Photo of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the company's GTC event in Berlin, Germany on Oct. 21, 2026, by Markus Schreiber/AP

BERLIN, Oct. 23, 2026 (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged players in Europe's lagging artificial intelligence industry to get going and touted a modular system to quickly build AI data centers with the massive computing capacity the continent's developers need but currently lack.

In an upbeat speech Wednesday at a company conference for developers and investors in Berlin, Huang also laid out tools to keep AI applications from running amok by confining them in a digital “sandbox.”

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