Europe Builds AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA to Fuel Region's Next Industrial Transformation

[TheLostSwede]

NVIDIA today announced it is working with European nations, and technology and industry leaders, to build NVIDIA Blackwell AI infrastructure that will strengthen digital sovereignty, support economic growth and position the continent as a leader in the AI industrial revolution. France, Italy, Spain and the U.K. are among the nations building domestic AI infrastructure with an ecosystem of technology and cloud providers, including Domyn, Mistral AI, Nebius and Nscale, and telecommunications providers, including Orange, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor.

These deployments will deliver more than 3,000 exaflops of NVIDIA Blackwell compute resources for sovereign AI, enabling European enterprises, startups and public sector organizations to securely develop, train and deploy agentic and physical AI applications. NVIDIA is establishing and expanding AI technology centers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and Finland. These centers build on NVIDIA's history of collaborating with academic institutions and industry through the NVIDIA AI Technology Center program and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute to develop the AI workforce and scientific discovery throughout the regions.




"Every industrial revolution begins with infrastructure. AI is the essential infrastructure of our time, just as electricity and the internet once were," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "With bold leadership from Europe's governments and industries, AI will drive transformative innovation and prosperity for generations to come."

"France is committed to investing in AI to strengthen our economy, benefit our citizens and uphold our values," said Emmanuel Macron, president of the French Republic. "By working closely with our nation's leading technology innovators and NVIDIA, we are equipping researchers, entrepreneurs and public institutions with the tools they need to explore new ideas, tackle complex challenges and help shape the future of AI for France."

"Just as coal and electricity once defined our past, AI is defining our future," said U.K. Tech Secretary Peter Kyle. "NVIDIA's expansion of its technology center here in the U.K. will be vital in helping us to deliver on our AI ambitions, and their partnership in building the capabilities that will transform our AI Growth Zones into engines of opportunity. This is our Plan for Change in action, bringing together leading innovators to build the compute infrastructure that will drive growth across every region and secure the U.K.'s place as a global AI leader in the age of AI."

"This agreement represents a strategic step toward strengthening Italy's technological sovereignty and ensuring that our businesses have secure and competitive access to data management," said Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso. "The collaboration with top-tier partners such as NVIDIA and Domyn confirms the government's commitment in supporting high-level alliances to foster innovation and the competitiveness of the national production system."

Building Europe's Foundation for AI Infrastructure and Innovation
Building AI infrastructure requires strategic investment in advanced systems, land and facilities, sustainable energy access, skilled experts and partnerships. To accelerate the development of these national resources, NVIDIA is working with leaders across France, the U.K., Germany and Italy.

In France, Mistral AI is working with NVIDIA to build an end-to-end cloud platform powered by 18,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems in the first phase, with plans to expand across multiple sites in 2026. This infrastructure will enable organizations across Europe to quickly develop and deploy AI using optimized Mistral AI models and validated AI factory designs, accelerating the adoption of agentic AI applications.

In the U.K., NVIDIA is collaborating with NVIDIA Cloud Partners Nebius and Nscale to unlock advanced AI capabilities for enterprises and businesses of all sizes. At London Tech Week, the cloud providers announced the first phase of their AI infrastructure development plans to deploy 14,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to power new data centers, making scalable, secure AI infrastructure widely accessible across the U.K.

In Germany, NVIDIA and its partners are building the world's first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. This AI factory will be powered by NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers featuring 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to enable Europe's industrial leaders to accelerate every manufacturing application, from design, engineering and simulation to factory digital twins and robotics.

In Italy, NVIDIA is working with Domyn and the government to advance the nation's sovereign AI capabilities. Domyn is developing its Domyn Large Colosseum reasoning model on its supercomputer, Colosseum, with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips, in alignment with its mission to support regulated industries in adopting AI.

European Telcos Build AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA for Regional Enterprises
NVIDIA is also working with leading European telecommunications providers—including Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor—to develop secure, scalable sovereign AI infrastructure across the region.

• Orange is accelerating the development of enterprise-grade AI, including agentic AI, large language models and personal AI assistants, using Orange Business' Cloud Avenue, built on high-performance NVIDIA infrastructure.
• Fastweb introduced MIIA—an Italian language model to support generative AI applications—trained and running on its NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer.
• Telenor is expanding its sovereign AI infrastructure in Norway with a new, renewable-powered data center, in addition to hosting a partner's multilingual AI translation service, available in over 100 languages.
• Swisscom is launching new AI services, including GenAI Studio and AI Workhub hosted on its sovereign AI NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD -based infrastructure, empowering Swiss enterprises to rapidly build and scale AI applications.
• Telefónica is piloting a distributed edge AI fabric across Spain with hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs to deliver low-latency, privacy-focused AI services.

These collaborations enable enterprises to develop and deploy customized AI models and agentic applications at scale, tapping into telcos' extensive networks and trusted role as critical infrastructure providers.

NVIDIA AI Technology Centers Fuel Research, Upskilling and Scientific Progress
NVIDIA is establishing and expanding technology centers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and Finland to accelerate AI skills development, research and infrastructure for the continent's enterprises and startups.

• The Bavarian AI center in Germany, intended to be established in collaboration with the Bayern KI consortium, will advance research in fields including digital medicine, stable diffusion AI and open-source robotics platforms to foster global collaboration.
• The Sweden AI center will advance world-class AI research with support from NVIDIA experts and hands-on NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute training to help with upskilling.
• The Italy AI center will expand to include new AI factory deployments with the CINECA consortium.
• The Spain AI center will expand to include a new AI factory with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
• The U.K. AI center will accelerate the U.K.'s most groundbreaking research in embodied AI, materials science and Earth systems modeling.
• The Finland AI center enables researchers to accelerate AI research and applications for computer vision, machine learning and AI for science.

These strategic initiatives across Europe build on NVIDIA investments in building AI infrastructure worldwide, including in Taiwan and the Middle East.

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[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Would TPU be willing to limit the number of Nvidia press releases per day to a set limit? It's bad enough were accelerating toward their specific brand of dystopia in which they're the omnipotent and omnipresent being....

 

[gozzima]

With the low carbon electricity in France (thanks to nuclear and water power plants), Mistral AI carbon footprint will be much better than others !

 

[TheLostSwede]

Would TPU be willing to limit the number of Nvidia press releases per day to a set limit? It's bad enough were accelerating toward their specific brand of dystopia in which they're the omnipotent and omnipresent being....

I did, there's another 20 press releases on their site from today...
Most are not relevant to TPU, which is why I skipped them.
Also, I don't control the other news writers.

 

[Daven]

Would TPU be willing to limit the number of Nvidia press releases per day to a set limit? It's bad enough were accelerating toward their specific brand of dystopia in which they're the omnipotent and omnipresent being....

Nvidia might be the largest and fastest forming monopoly in human history. TPU will be compelled to post anything and everything Nvidia related as often as possible and as fast as possible. Prepare for the comments to be filled even more so with Jensen worship. It's gonna be dark times for the next few years in the computing space.

There is also a supercomputing conference going on right now so Nvidia is releasing a lot of press during the show.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

will deliver more than 3,000 exaflops of NVIDIA Blackwell

What? Maybe 3000 petaflops, because total of all European energy systems can't power supply 3000 exaflops.

 

[Xaled]

Is it legal for Nvidia to talk on behalf of Europe and make a advertisement under a mask of a "press release" ?

 

[TheLostSwede]

Nvidia might be the largest and fastest forming monopoly in human history. TPU will be compelled to post anything and everything Nvidia related as often as possible and as fast as possible. Prepare for the comments to be filled even more so with Jensen worship. It's gonna be dark times for the next few years in the computing space.

There is also a supercomputing conference going on right now so Nvidia is releasing a lot of press during the show.

Why would we be posting anything and everything Nvidia?
Did you even see my post before yours?

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

TPU will be compelled to post anything and everything Nvidia related as often as possible and as fast as possible. Prepare for the comments to be filled even more so with Jensen worship. It's gonna be dark times for the next few years in the computing space.

Dont forget the wording. But will say, its not only on TPU.

See todays front page and pay attention to the titles:

 

[Daven]

Why would we be posting anything and everything Nvidia?
Did you even see my post before yours?

I'm not necessarily saying anything about whether or not relevant to TPU/selected Nvidia press releases and articles should be posted. But relevant or not, Nvidia is everywhere now and it has some of us just a little worried. At no time in our human history, do things get better when a corporation gets so big. They usually get worse. I'm sorry we feel this way and some of us feel the need to occasionally speak out based on this worry.

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

I'm sorry we feel this way and some of us feel the need to occasionally speak out based on this worry.

My grievances on that:

1- DLSS. I remember back then when any reviewer would trash any proprietary tech that would force/lock you into one vendor.
Now? Well, we know how much that is worshipped these days.

2- Monopoly. Somehow these people dont have enough with the current GPU monopoly, which has raised prices to insane levels.
No, now they also want Ngreedia to extend their monopoly to CPU's.



I have more but you get the gist.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I'm not necessarily saying anything about whether or not relevant to TPU/selected Nvidia press releases and articles should be posted. But relevant or not, Nvidia is everywhere now and it has some of us just a little worried. At no time in our human history, do things get better when a corporation gets so big. They usually get worse. I'm sorry we feel this way and some of us feel the need to occasionally speak out based on this worry.

I have no issue with people not being pro Nvidia, but we cover tech news here, so it would be impossible to ignore these things.

 

[Daven]

I have no issue with people not being pro Nvidia, but we cover tech news here, so it would be impossible to ignore these things.

But that's the problem isn't it. We are not anti-Nvidia. We are anti monopolies and their bad behavior. There is a big difference and that is not being recognized. And as Neo Morpheus points out, the seemingly contradictory behavior when it comes to Nvidia in particular. It is not news every time Nvidia blows it's nose and as you have pointed out, you actually don't post everything Nvidia releases. But even the selected news is way, way too much. I know these press release articles are posted 'as is' but I only see so many articles about one company on websites that cater to the products of one company like macrumors.com or 9to5mac.com. Could we maybe get one summary article at least when a single company posts so many press releases back to back? This should apply to everyone (AMD, Intel, Apple, Nvidia, etc).

 

[TheLostSwede]

But that's the problem isn't it. We are not anti-Nvidia. We are anti monopolies and their bad behavior. There is a big difference and that is not being recognized. And as Neo Morpheus points out, the seemingly contradictory behavior when it comes to Nvidia in particular. It is not news every time Nvidia blows it's nose and as you have pointed out, you actually don't post everything Nvidia releases. But even the selected news is way, way too much. I know these press release articles are posted 'as is' but I only see so many articles about one company on websites that cater to the products of one company like macrumors.com or 9to5mac.com. Could we maybe get one summary article at least when a single company posts so many press releases back to back? This should apply to everyone (AMD, Intel, Apple, Nvidia, etc).

You don't have to be anti something just not to be pro something, you can in fact have multiple stances on a company like this, much any other large conglomerate.
As for monopolies and bad behaviour, you're going to have to take that up with some government, as they're the only ones that can put a stop for that, but it looks like the entire world has decided that it doesn't care about things like that for now.
Have you seen us post the silly stories about what Jensen eats when he visits Taiwan? You should be glad you didn't see the news when he came over for Computex.
In fact, I left the hall as he was approaching, as it got so crowded it was impossible to move. It was something along the lines of my 18th or 19th Computex this year and I've seen him many times before and I'm honestly not blown away by the guy.
It's hard to do what you're asking for when there's an event when a singular company announces a lot of newsworthy things, so you will have to accept that there are days like today.

 

[wolf]

I remember back then when any reviewer would trash any proprietary tech that would force/lock you into one vendor.
Now? Well, we know how much that is worshipped these days.

Been a gamer since the 90's myself and I don't remember what you're talking about, can you link me to reviewers doing this? I feel like I've asked this before and you never replied - I am willing to read any reciepts you want to provide here.

Also I'm keen to understand why you think DLSS locks/forces anyone to stay with Nvidia?

 

[TheLostSwede]

Been a gamer since the 90's myself and I don't remember what you're talking about, can you link me to reviewers doing this? I feel like I've asked this before and you never replied - I am willing to read any reciepts you want to provide here.

I seem to remember that everyone loved Glide, as you got so much extra performance from it. There weren't many proprietary graphics things after that, at least not that I can remember.
I guess Imagination got trashed for PowerSGL, but that was mostly because it didn't work that well.

 

[wolf]

I seem to remember that everyone loved Glide, as you got so much extra performance from it. There weren't many proprietary graphics things after that

Yeha same really, plus you could still use other API's with 3dfx and other vendors could use OpenGL and Directx too so it hardly 'locked' you to 3dfx hardware, more incentivised because their solution had advantages.... Much like DLSS today really.