Proposal for the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA)

The ongoing deployment of AI factories and AI gigafactories aims to provide broad access to high-capacity, next-generation computational resources for European businesses and researchers requiring AI capabilities. To complement this, the EU needs to expand its cloud and data centre capacity to support the wider deployment and diffusion of AI.

The CADA will reinforce energy-efficient data centre capacity, while complementing the Apply AI strategy to boost the adoption of artificial intelligence and cloud across Europe.

It will focus on three objectives:

1. Research, development and innovation: supporting efforts to deploy the next generation of cutting-edge and sustainable cloud and AI technologies
2. Capacity: accelerating the conditions for deploying data centres across the EU, focusing on facilities that enhance essential public sector functions
3. Autonomy: introducing a single EU-wide assessment framework for cloud and AI sovereignty, accompanied by a public sector adoption mechanism

The CADA complements other new initiatives, including the Chips Act 2.0 and the EU Open Source Strategy, in contributing to a more competitive, secure and resilient European digital economy.

You can download the full regulation proposal, the annexes, the impact assessment and a summary of this impact assessment below.

Read more information:

• Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA)
• Cloud computing
• AI Continent Action Plan