21/05/2026
What does it actually take to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Europe?
That was the question on the Titans Stage at Deep Tech Momentum 2026 in Berlin and the answers were uncomfortable in the best possible way.
The session brought together voices building the actual stack: compute, silicon, and chip interconnects.
Europe has been here before. It missed the cloud wave. The difference this time is that the stakes are higher, not just economically, but in terms of who shapes the information people receive, the decisions they make, and the values encoded into systems billions will use daily.
Models are becoming commodities. Infrastructure is not. Whoever controls compute controls the value chain sitting on top of it. This isn't a technology debate, it's an economic and political one.
Europe's real moat isn't a chatbot. It's decades of industrial knowledge that no foundation model can scrape from the internet. If that gets encoded into efficient, domain-specific AI, the US consumer AI lead stops mattering.
The bottleneck isn't ambition. It's speed.
On stage: Dr. Andreas Nauerz (IONOS), Philippe Notton (SiPearl), Sebastian Schall (Black Semiconductor, Dr. Marcus Hennig (planqc), Christian Bolz (EnBW Infrastruktur Service GmbH).
