A major shakeup in the technology landscape across Europe is looming as countries and companies race to develop top-tier instruments to support AI workloads on NVIDIA platforms. These joint ventures are designed to speed the pace of AI innovation, safeguard digital sovereignty and stimulate economic growth in several industries.
EUROPE — In addition to the recently-announced industrial AI cloud in Germany, NVIDIA’s broader work with Germany and the rest of Europe includes an initiative to help develop “AI factories” and sovereign AI capabilities across the continent.
NVIDIA says countries such as France, Italy, Spain and the UK are already engaged with in the deployment of NVIDIA Blackwell systems and targeting delivering more than 3,000 exaflops of AI computing for sovereign AI development.
A crucial part of this project consists of cooperation with European telecommunications powerhouses, including Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica, and Telenor.
These telcos are partnered with NVIDIA to create secure and scalable AI infrastructure that helps to allow enterprises to embrace and create agentic AI applications. For example, Swisscom is introducing new AI offerings such as GenAI Studio – to be hosted on its country’s sovereign AI infrastructure based on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD – enabling Swiss-based organizations to seamlessly develop and deploy AI applications quickly. Fastweb also built a locally developed Italian language model which was trained on NVIDIA hardware, highlighting local innovation in AI.
We are also working with European model builders and cloud providers such as in Mistral AI in France and Domyn in Italy to optimise sovereign large language models (LLMs) that represent local languages and cultures.
These best-in-class models will be hosted on platforms such as Perplexity and can be fine-tuned on local NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) infrastructure for data sovereignty and to meet specific regional value-added functions.
Additionally NVIDIA will open new AI technology centers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the U.K., and Finland. These centres will provide a focal point to move forward with AI research, train the next generation of tech experts and facilitate scientific and industry collaborations.
This multifaceted approach, bringing extreme computing to close to the ground action through targeted AI and AI developed where it’s needed, stands to anchor Europe as a player on the world AI stage and power its next industrial revolution.