Background
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) has already selected 13 proposals to establish and operate AI Factories across Europe.
AI Factories will bring together the key ingredients that are needed for success in AI: computing power, data, and talent. They will provide access to the massive computing power that start-ups, industry and researchers need to develop their AI models and systems. For example, European large language models or specialised vertical AI models focusing on specific sectors or domains.
On 30 June 2025, the Commission has also announced an overwhelming number of proposals to set up European AI Gigafactories, with 76 expressions of interest across 16 Member States.
The AI Gigafactories concept builds on the AI Factories initiative, harnessing Europe’s cutting-edge EuroHPC supercomputing network to realise the EU’s ambition of becoming the world’s leading AI continent. AI Gigafactories will be state-of-the-art, large-scale AI compute and data storage hubs, purpose-built to develop, train, and deploy next-generation AI models and applications at hyperscale, e.g. models with hundreds of trillions of parameters. By integrating vast computing power, energy-efficient data centres, and AI-driven automation, these facilities will set new benchmarks for AI model training, inference, and deployment.