What changed
Adds a definition for AI Gigafactory Coordinator with specific legal and control requirements. #4 Clarifies that existing mechanisms cannot support AI Gigafactories, necessitating an amendment. #2 The other changes are formal: added headings, signature lines, and corrected regulation numbering. #1#3#5
2 changes of substance, plus 3 formal. Each change below carries a one-line ✦ note from the same model. Written from the two texts only — read the highlighted passages before relying on it.
The changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations (“having regard to …”), standard resolution paragraphs and punctuation-only edits are left out — they are in “Show every difference”.
Change #2 Substance
Adds the acronym 'EU' to the regulation number and clarifies that the existing mechanisms are not equipped to support AI Gigafactories, necessitating an amendment.
(6) The development of the next generation of frontier AI models is expected to require large-scale facilities, exceeding at least by three to four times the number of the most advanced AI processors available in the most powerful AI Factories, while taking into account power capacity, as well as energy and water accessibility, efficiency and circularity. The existing mechanisms within Regulation (EU) 2021/1173 are not equipped today to support the establishment and operation of the AI Gigafactories. An ▌ amendment is therefore necessary to provide the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (the ‘Joint Undertaking’) with the necessary legal basis to be able to meet the commitments regarding setting up and operation of AI Gigafactories in Europe.
Change #4 Substance
Adds a definition for 'AI Gigafactory Coordinator' specifying requirements for incorporation, location, control, and authorization to represent the consortium.
(3e) ‘AI Gigafactory Coordinator’ means a legal entity, duly incorporated in the Union and validly existing under the laws of a Member State of establishment, not subject to jurisdictional or financial condionalities provided for in third-country law, which is legally authorized to represent the AI Gigafactory Consortium and has the legal capacity and authority to enter into, execute, and perform the AI Gigafactory Hosting Agreement; the AI Gigafactory coordinator shall be headquartered in the Union and shall be under control, directly or indirectly, through ownership interest or via other means, as defined in the Chapter IV of Regulation (EU) No 2024/1624 and relevant Union competition law principles, of legal entities or natural persons established within the Union. The coordinator may also be an existing hosting entity representing a Participating State that is a Member State or a hosting consortium of Participating States.