The European Union is planning to push greater AI-powered green controls onto the general public in order to reduce the energy usage of individual citizens.<\/p>\n
Speaking on June 3, Commission officials confirmed they would push for a \u201cfull roll-out\u201d of \u201csmart meters\u201d across the continent in an effort to keep control of the bloc\u2019s energy expenditure.<\/p>\n
Officials argue that the move will help ensure there is enough energy available for AI data centres at peak usage times without putting the EU\u2019s climate goals in danger.<\/p>\n
The body is billing the change as a way of giving citizens more control over their electricity costs, with Energy Commissioner Dan J\u00f8rgensen saying that the introduction of smart meters in Sweden saw ordinary citizens reduce their power use.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlready today, Swedish households that use electric heating can save up to 40% thanks to demand flexibility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the type of positive change we want to bring in our entire Energy Union.\u201d<\/p>\n
The proposal is part of the bloc\u2019s wider \u201cdigital sovereignty\u201d package.<\/p>\n
Aimed at restarting the EU\u2019s stagnating tech industry, a Commission memo regarding the plan that leaked last week indicated the union would push for state-run social media platforms as an alternative to private offerings from the United States.<\/p>\n
A claim in the document that the bloc would also support \u201copen source\u201d projects aimed at challenging American companies was meanwhile confirmed on June 3.<\/p>\n
According to Commission EVP Henna Virkkunen, Brussels believes that backing what it is calling \u201copen source\u201d software will help give the EU more control.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is time we harness what we have in Europe to give us control over our digital future,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the objective EU Open Source Strategy aims to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bloc\u2019s definition of what \u201copen source\u201d means has been controversial.<\/p>\n
While many in the tech sector reserve the label for software that is free to use, share, and rework without fear of external licensing, Eurocrats have applied the label to software that relies on restricted, privately-owned products.<\/p>\n
Such is the case with the EU\u2019s own digital ID age verification system, which requires the user to have a phone approved by either Apple or Google to function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union is planning to push greater AI-powered green controls onto the general public in order to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,2885,207312,5148,1712,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-481452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-climate-change","tag-eu-green-deal","tag-european-union","tag-european-commission","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}