Palantir's head of U.K. and Europe Louis Mosley has issued a stark warning about Europe's approach to artificial intelligence adoption, warning that the region is making the same mistake with AI that it made with the internet. According to reports from CoinDesk, Mosley warned that Europe's cautious stance on AI risks repeating the region's failure to capitalize on the internet economy. He described the divergence between markets as stark, noting that while the U.S. "got the internet right" and built a score of businesses, Europe "missed the boat." The executive vice president argued that European corporates maintain an attitude of "This is new, that means it could be risky. I'll wait and see," while the U.S. has compounded growth significantly since the two regions were roughly comparable 20 years ago on GDP per capita and capital-market depth.
Mosley positioned Palantir as the purest proxy on public markets for AI adoption rates across economies. As reported by CoinDesk, Palantir builds an ontology and governance scaffold that enables governments and companies to deploy large language models and agents across healthcare, industry, and defense sectors. The company operates model-agnostic technology, allowing customers to run OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, open-weight models, or Chinese systems while fine-tuning them on their own data. With only around 1,000 customers against a far larger addressable market of complex organizations in allied countries, Mosley characterized Palantir as still early in its market penetration.
Opposition to Palantir across the U.K. and Europe stems primarily from its defense and law enforcement ties, according to CoinDesk reports. Mosley identified the company's contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under President Trump's administration and supplying targeting systems to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as key controversy drivers. Campaigners have argued against Palantir's use in public services such as the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) on ethical grounds. Mosley characterized the opposition as a distraction from domestic priorities, telling CoinDesk that "The issues that really get those people fired up are Gaza and Trump. Palantir has contracts in America for Trump's administration and has contracts in Israel with the IDF and we have a contract with the NHS."
Mosley emphasized that while AI will disrupt jobs, it will also free professionals from administrative tasks, raising overall productivity. As reported by CoinDesk, he noted that the biggest risk to AI remains political failure to explain why the technology benefits people. The executive argued that political hostility to energy-intensive tech is commonplace, citing previous attacks on bitcoin miners over electricity use and current criticism of AI high-performance computing over power consumption. He positioned Palantir as early in its market penetration despite serving only around 1,000 customers against a far larger addressable market of complex organizations in allied countries.
