Spain's rate of enterprises fully adopting artificial intelligence stands at 43%, according to a comparison with France and Germany.

Omissions

• Eurostat's reference year 2025 is the most recent data available at the session date; the 2026 ICT survey results could not yet exist on 2026-10-22, so any figure presented as a 2026 rate is unsupported.
• The 43% figure for Spain appears in Banco de España's Economic Bulletin 2025/Q2 only as the share of firms that 'have adopted or plan to adopt' AI — including mere intentions — not the share that have fully adopted it; using it as an adoption rate inflates the figure substantially.
• Eurostat also shows a very narrow Spain-Germany gap on AI indicators (e.g. 8.9% vs 9.0% for generative-AI use in 2025), which contradicts the large absolute levels (43% vs 47%) used to argue that France is 'totally behind'.
• The speaker cites no source for either the Spanish or the German figure, making the comparison unverifiable as presented.

Sources

• PrimaryEurostat — '20% of EU enterprises use AI technologies' (news release)"In 2025, 20.0% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to conduct their business"
• PrimaryEurostat Statistics Explained — Use of artificial intelligence in enterprises"In 2025, 19.95% of EU enterprises used AI technologies. In 2025, 55.03% of large EU enterprises used AI technologies."
• PrimaryBanco de España — Economic Bulletin 2025/Q2, 'Adoption of artificial intelligence in Spanish firms'"43% of firms have adopted or plan to adopt AI" (Spanish firms, adoption-or-intention measure, not the share that has fully adopted AI)
• SecondaryEvy — Which EU countries' companies use AI the most and least? (citing Eurostat)"8.8% of EU firms used AI that generates text, speech or code in 2025, from 3.1% in Romania to 30.8% in Denmark (Germany 9.0%, Spain 8.9%)"