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Nine months on from the launch of its NVIDIA stack-based AI Refinery (see here), Accenture has announced an extension of the collaboration to target the
sovereign AI needs of European organisations. The enhancements to the platform aim to support enterprises in the region to develop and deploy AI capabilities, while leveraging their own cloud infrastructure and adhering to data residency and security requirements. The new offering is seen as particularly relevant for the public sector and critical infrastructure industries, such as energy, telecommunications and defence.
AI sovereignty has been described as Europe's defining digital challenge as the region grapples to strike a balance between technological autonomy and managed dependency. For businesses in the territory, the anxieties span competitive, regulatory, and strategic dimensions. These concerns are contributing to the comparatively low rates of AI adoption among European companies, the acceleration of which represents a significant revenue opportunity for suppliers.
Accenture is neither the only IT services provider making a play in this arena nor unique among its peers to be working with NVIDIA to advance its global AI ambitions (see here). There is, however, some evidence that the partnership is beginning to gain traction in the European theatre. The two companies have enjoyed recent joint successes at German truck manufacturer KION Group, L’Oreal backed UK start-up Noli and Nestlé.
Posted by: Duncan Aitchison at 09:46