Everything needed to brief the Commission, the Parliament's ITRE committee, national procurement bodies and the trade press on the proposed European IT Hardware Price Index.
Rise of a 16 GB DDR5 module on EU spot markets, Jan 2023 → Apr 2026
Year-on-year increase in datacentre AI accelerator pricing (Apr 2026)
Estimated reduction in supplier risk premia under indexed contracts
EU Member States covered by the proposed Index
Public, EU-governed hardware price benchmarks in existence today
“Public tenders signed against today's prices are being delivered against entirely different markets.”
“There is no neutral, public, EU-governed reference that a tender clause can point to. The proposed Index closes that gap.”
“Hardware price volatility is no longer a procurement issue — it is a barrier to delivering Europe's digital decade.”
The full 2023–2026 EU spot price series (RAM DDR4/DDR5, NVMe, server CPU, AI GPU) is browseable on the Price Index page and exportable as CSV on request.
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