The latest masterpiece from beloved EU bureaucrats? They're building SEVEN "AI factories" across Europe! Yes, you heard that right - factories for artificial intelligence. Because apparently, the regular kind of intelligence was getting a bit boring. You know how it usually goes with European projects - first, we throw a casual €1.5 billion at it (pocket change, really), then we spend three years arguing about which country gets the nice coffee machine. But this time, they've actually divided it up rather nicely: Barcelona, Luxembourg, Bologna, Stuttgart, Athens, and a couple of places up north where even the AI will need a warm jacket. The EU's Digital Renaissance: AI Factories Across the Continent "Silicon Castles: How Europe is Building its AI Empire" Now, you might be wondering, "What exactly is an AI factory?" Well, imagine a really, really expensive building filled with supercomputers that basically do what your teenager does all day - ...