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SoftBank Group announced a national France AI data center capacity program on May 30, 2026. The primary release says SoftBank committed to develop and operate up to 5 GW of AI data center capacity in France, representing investment of up to

Campus AI is the Bpifrance, MGX, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA joint venture announced at the May 2025 Choose France summit to establish what the partners describe as Europe's largest AI campus in France. The primary announcement places the campus

Digital Realty is significantly expanding its UK footprint with a $2 billion "Mega-Campus" project designed to meet the high-density power demands of AI and hyperscale workloads. The campus is projected to reach a total capacity exceeding 3

Mistral's current infrastructure story is Mistral Compute and the Eclairion/Fluidstack Bruyeres-le-Chatel cluster path, not a verified dedicated OVHcloud Paris cluster. Mistral's own Compute page describes a frontier AI cloud with GB200 pro

Equinix PA12x is a planned Paris xScale data-center facility in Argenteuil. Equinix's expansion timeline lists New xScale Data Center Paris PA12x, France, for Q2 2026. DataCenterMap lists the facility as under construction at 18-82 Rue de M

Equinix MD5 is a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX) data center located in the Alcobendas district of Madrid, Spain. Scheduled for completion in Q2 2026, the facility is designed with a total IT capacity of 6.4 megawatts (MW), speci

EDF and OpCore entered exclusive negotiations for a high-power data center at the former Montereau-Vallee-de-la-Seine thermal power plant southeast of Paris. Data Center Dynamics reports the project as a possible EUR 4 billion hyperscale da

AION is Scaleway and iliad Group's French AI Gigafactory bid under the European AI Gigafactories / EuroHPC framework. Scaleway's primary announcement says AION would deploy several next-generation GPU clusters equivalent to more than 288,00

JUPITER is Europe's first exascale-class supercomputer, housed in a modular liquid-cooled data center at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Built on Eviden BullSequana XH3000 racks populated with 24,000 NVIDIA GH200 Grace-Hopper Superchips, the syst

CoreWeave, a specialized GPU cloud provider focused on AI compute, expanded into Europe with data centers in the United Kingdom starting in 2024. With locations in the Greater London area and Manchester, CoreWeave offers NVIDIA H100 and H20

Microsoft expanded Azure into Austria with a new cloud region in 2024, establishing data residency infrastructure for Austria and extending the DACH (Germany-Austria-Switzerland) coverage footprint alongside existing German regions (West Eu

Microsoft announced the launch of its Azure Austria region in January 2024 with a €1 billion investment commitment. The Austria region is hosted in Vienna and complements Microsoft's existing Germany and Switzerland regions to cover the Ger

OpenAI has a Paris office and a meaningful French ecosystem presence, but ADCI could not verify the prior public claim of a 100 MW OpenAI data center in France. OpenAI's November 2024 France announcement supports a Paris office, local partn

Microsoft Azure Italy North, launched in 2023, is Microsoft's newest European cloud region and a cornerstone of the company's €4.3 billion commitment to Italian AI and cloud infrastructure announced in 2024. The region offers full Azure AI

Microsoft launched its Portugal cloud region in Lisbon in October 2022, backed by a €143 million investment commitment. The region was established as part of Microsoft's broader European expansion and provides Portuguese enterprises, govern

SAP runs AI Core infrastructure from its Walldorf, Germany headquarters data centers, powering Joule — SAP's AI assistant embedded across S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, and other enterprise software. SAP AI Core provides the model hosting and inf

The UK AI Research Resource (AIRR) is a national initiative funded by the UK government to provide sovereign AI compute for academic research and national AI development programs. The program spans two flagship systems: Isambard-AI at the U

MareNostrum 5 is a heterogeneous EuroHPC supercomputer installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Its Lenovo Neptune liquid-cooled CPU partition spans 6,400 Sapphire Rapids nodes delivering 40 petaflops, complemented by accelerator n

Scaleway Nabu, also described as Nabuchodonosor, is a GPU supercomputer/cluster record located at DC5/PAR2, not a separate 40 MW Vitry-sur-Seine AI data-center facility. Scaleway's October 5, 2023 release says Nabu is an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD

AWS opened the Europe (Zurich) region in November 2022, becoming the first major hyperscaler cloud region in Switzerland and a landmark moment for Swiss digital sovereignty. The region spans three Availability Zones across the greater Zuric

Google Cloud's Milan region (europe-west8), launched in July 2022, is Italy's first hyperscale AI cloud region and serves as the primary Google Cloud access point for Italian enterprises, government agencies, and the broader Southern Europe

Microsoft Azure launched its Spain Central region in Madrid in October 2022, backed by a €1.26 billion investment commitment. The region was established to serve Spain's enterprise market with local data residency, supporting compliance wit

Aleph Alpha is Germany's leading AI startup, focused on sovereign, explainable AI for European enterprise and government use cases. Its training infrastructure, co-located in German data centers operated with HPE hardware, powers the Lumino

Leonardo is a EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputer hosted at the Bologna Technopole and operated by CINECA. Built on Eviden BullSequana XH2000 technology, the system combines a 3,456-node GPU booster with 13,824 NVIDIA A100 accelerators and a

MeluXina is Luxembourg's national supercomputer, combining AMD EPYC CPU nodes with hundreds of NVIDIA A100 accelerators inside a liquid-cooled BullSequana XH2000 system. Drawing roughly 3 megawatts, the machine achieved a top-five Green500

Cambridge-1 is NVIDIA's national AI supercomputer for the United Kingdom, hosted within Kao Data's DGX-ready campus in Harlow. The system comprises 80 DGX A100 nodes linked with HDR InfiniBand, delivering more than 400 petaflops of AI perfo

Google DeepMind operates AI research compute clusters in London, anchored at its headquarters in King's Cross. These clusters support training of frontier models including Gemini (jointly with Google Brain, now merged into DeepMind), AlphaF

Microsoft Azure's Switzerland North region in Zurich launched in September 2019, alongside a companion Switzerland West region in Geneva. The regions were established to serve Switzerland's highly regulated financial services sector (bankin

Alibaba Cloud operates its European hub in Frankfurt, Germany, hosting data center infrastructure that forms the backbone of the company's EU cloud region. Frankfurt was selected for its status as Europe's leading internet exchange (DE-CIX,

Huawei Cloud operates its primary European region from Frankfurt, Germany — the continent's leading internet exchange hub. The region supports Huawei's international cloud business for European enterprise customers and provides the infrastr

DC5 is Scaleway / OpCore's PAR2 data center in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone, northwest of Paris. Scaleway describes DC5/PAR2 as powered by renewable wind and hydro energy with GO certification, free and adiabatic cooling, and a PUE of 1.16. Scaleway

Microsoft Azure France Central is a cloud-region record rather than a single verified data-center facility. Microsoft Learn lists France Central with physical-location label Paris, geography France, programmatic name `francecentral`, Availa

Google Cloud's Frankfurt region (europe-west3), launched in 2017, is Google's primary German AI cloud infrastructure and serves the German-speaking market — Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) — under strict German and EU data protecti

Google Cloud's London region (europe-west2), launched in July 2017, is Google's primary UK AI infrastructure facility and serves as the deployment zone for Google Cloud AI services under UK data residency requirements. The region is closely

AWS EU (Paris), programmatic region `eu-west-3`, is a cloud-region record rather than a single verified data-center facility. AWS documentation records the Europe (Paris) Region launch on December 18, 2017, and AWS launch material described

Microsoft Azure UK South — the London region — is Microsoft's primary UK cloud and AI data center, launched in 2016 alongside the paired UK West (Cardiff) region. The London facilities span multiple data centers in the Thames Valley and Gre

Amazon Web Services EU-WEST-2 — the London region — is AWS's primary UK cloud and AI infrastructure hub, launched in December 2016. The region operates three availability zones across facilities in the London metropolitan area and is the la

Google's Eemshaven data center in the northern Netherlands is one of the company's largest European AI compute facilities. Located in the port area of Eemshaven, near Delfzijl in the province of Groningen, the campus benefits from access to

Microsoft Azure's Netherlands region — West Europe — is one of the company's primary European cloud hubs, launched in 2014 from data centers in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. The region operates across multiple facilities in Noord-Holland

AWS's official global infrastructure page lists Europe / Frankfurt as an AWS Region and explains that AWS Regions are physical locations where AWS clusters data centers across multiple Availability Zones. AWS's Germany page highlights Germa

Meta's Clonee campus in County Meath was the company's first data center outside the United States, opening in 2012 and expanded continuously since. The campus now spans 288 MW of IT capacity across multiple buildings and serves as Meta's p

Google's Dublin data center campus, located in the Kilmore area of north Dublin, is the company's primary Irish AI infrastructure facility and an anchor of Google Cloud's European presence. Operational since 2011, the campus has been expand

Google's Saint-Ghislain campus in Wallonia, Belgium is one of the company's largest and most innovative European data center facilities. Opened in 2010, it was built on the site of a former industrial facility and is notable for its pioneer

Google's Saint-Ghislain data center, open since 2010, is one of the company's oldest and most significant European facilities — a founding node of Google's European cloud infrastructure that has been continuously expanded for 15 years to be

Microsoft Azure North Europe — the Dublin region — is one of Microsoft's two primary European cloud regions (paired with West Europe in Amsterdam). Launched in 2009, it operates multiple data centers across the Greater Dublin area including

Amazon Web Services EU-WEST-1 — the Dublin region — is AWS's oldest European cloud region, launched in November 2007. It operates across three availability zones in the Greater Dublin area and represents one of AWS's largest European footpr

Equinix Amsterdam represents the largest concentration of data center colocation capacity in Europe, anchored by the AMS-IX internet exchange — the world's largest by peak traffic. The campus encompasses more than eleven interconnected faci

Equinix operates the largest neutral colocation and interconnection campus in Germany across multiple Frankfurt data centers, with FR2 and FR7 as the primary AI-intensive facilities. Frankfurt is Europe's premier internet exchange hub — hom

Rolls-Royce, in collaboration with the UK government, is developing small modular reactors (SMRs) to provide sustainable energy solutions for data centers. Each SMR is designed to generate approximately 470 megawatts of electricity, suffici

Microsoft is building a 300 MW flagship AI data center campus in Zaragoza, Aragón, as part of its multi-billion euro investment in Spanish digital infrastructure. The facility is specifically engineered to host high-density AI workloads for

SINES 4.0 SIN02 is a massive 180 MW expansion of the Start Campus hyperscale site in Sines, Portugal. Evolving into an "AI Gigafactory," the facility is designed to host over 12,000 next-generation NVIDIA GPUs for large-scale AI model train

Hetzner’s Falkenstein Data Center Park (FSN) in Falkenstein/Vogtland, Saxony, is the company’s second major campus and a critical GPU infrastructure node for European AI workloads. Falkenstein complements the Nuremberg campus in capacity di

Hetzner's Nuremberg Data Center Park (NUE) is the company's primary campus and one of Europe's largest independent data center parks operated by a mid-size cloud provider. Nuremberg has been Hetzner's home city since the company's founding

Polarise is developing a 120 MW AI data center in Amberg (Unterallgäu), Bavaria, at the site of a former shortwave transmitter. The project is a cornerstone of the "European Sovereign AI" initiative, aiming to provide a locally-operated, GD

Launched in early 2026, the Pure Data Centre Dublin facility is Europe’s first "islanded" microgrid data center, designed to bypass grid connection delays. The 110 MW campus was specifically built to handle high-density AI workloads, repres

The OVHcloud Milan (MIL) region is the company's first 3-Availability Zone (3-AZ) deployment outside France, designed to meet the growing demand for sovereign cloud and AI services in Southern Europe. The region consists of three physically

DigitalOcean's Amsterdam data centers (AMS1 and AMS3) function as the company's primary AI compute hub for European customers, anchoring a strategic expansion into GPU cloud services that positions DigitalOcean against specialized AI cloud