A week and a half ago, I was at VivaTech in Paris, where I listened to dozens of European founders complain about the EU AI regulations - not because there was something they wanted to do that they were prohibited from doing, but because the way they are written, they have no idea what they can or can't do.
They're looking at how to put servers in Norway and Iceland specifically because they can figure out what the rules are, and in the EU, they cannot.
Iceland and Norway are part of the EEA so the AI Act and GDPR will reach them just like Germany or France. Running away there from regulators makes no sense. But running from bureaucracy to get land permits and substation connections - yeah maybe municipalities work faster there
Yeah, see my other comment, I made an assumption there because they said datacenters outside the EU, they didn't explicitly say Norway and Iceland, I assumed! Now I wonder what countries they meant!
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A week and a half ago, I was at VivaTech in Paris, where I listened to dozens of European founders complain about the EU AI regulations - not because there was something they wanted to do that they were prohibited from doing, but because the way they are written, they have no idea what they can or can't do.
They're looking at how to put servers in Norway and Iceland specifically because they can figure out what the rules are, and in the EU, they cannot.
EU digital regulations, including the AI Act, apply in EEA states, including Norway and Iceland.
Yeah, they said "outside of EU countries" and I assumed, maybe they meant somewhere else.
The EU has suffered from decades of brain drain.
Every conversation about it very well demonstrates this fact.
Iceland and Norway are part of the EEA so the AI Act and GDPR will reach them just like Germany or France. Running away there from regulators makes no sense. But running from bureaucracy to get land permits and substation connections - yeah maybe municipalities work faster there
Yeah, see my other comment, I made an assumption there because they said datacenters outside the EU, they didn't explicitly say Norway and Iceland, I assumed! Now I wonder what countries they meant!