Nexus Luxembourg, the country's largest technology summit, returns to LuxExpo The Box on 10–11 June 2026 with more than 10,000 visitors, 150 speakers and a four-part programme spanning applied AI, fintech and a start-up contest — as Luxembourg positions itself as a European hub for trusted, sovereign computing.
Ireland has effectively ended the 2021 moratorium on new data-centre grid connections, but under tough rules: new sites must match 100% of their grid draw with dispatchable generation and cover 80% of annual demand from new Irish renewables within six years. Data centres already use 22% of Irish electricity (up from 5% in 2015), heading toward 30% by the early 2030s. A study for Friends of the Earth claims the sector added 360 euros to the average home bill in 2015-2023.
Deelan AI, a Luxembourg startup building an adaptive platform that generates sales-team training from a company's own materials, has closed a seed round led by Expon Capital, reported on 27 May 2026. Founded by ex-Talkwalker executives Panos Meintanis and Michel Conrad, the company says early customers see a 30%-plus cut in onboarding ramp time. The round's size was not disclosed.
Under the 'Digital Omnibus' deal reached on 7 May 2026, the EU agreed to postpone the AI Act's high-risk obligations - to December 2027 for standalone systems and August 2028 for AI built into products - while transparency rules still take effect on 2 August 2026. In Luxembourg, draft law 8476 hands the lead enforcement role to the CNPD.
Luxembourg's GovTech Lab has opened TAID.LU, an innovation partnership to build a deepfake-detection platform for ALIA as EU AI Act transparency duties move toward application in August 2026.
Luxembourg closed the 2026 edition of Elements of AI with around 250 participants at the Digital Learning Hub and says more than 7,600 people have now acquired basic AI knowledge through the programme.
OpenAI and Malta have announced a programme giving eligible Maltese participants one year of ChatGPT Plus after completing an AI literacy course. The move matters for Luxembourg because it turns AI access into a public-policy question, alongside skills, digital inclusion and sovereignty.
Luxembourg companies using AI in HR, finance, customer service or regulated products need to map their systems before the AI Act becomes fully applicable.
A new sovereign supercomputer with more than 2,100 GPU-AI accelerators puts the Grand Duchy on Europe's AI infrastructure map, with half of capacity reserved for national use.