Europe produces more AI professionals per head than America. But they keep leaving for California.
New data from LinkedIn (via the Financial Times) shows the scale of the ‘brain drain’. Europe is a factory for AI talent that it cannot keep.
The reason isn’t just salary. It’s ‘compute density’.
If you are a top-tier researcher, you want to be where the clusters are. You want to be where $100bn is being spent on training runs. Right now, that infrastructure is concentrated in a tiny corridor of North America.
Europe has the talent, the regulations, and the ethics. But without the massive capital investment in clusters, it remains a training ground for the Silicon Valley giants.
We are seeing a new type of geography emerge: The Silicon vs. Scale map.
