Across national and private compute efforts
GPU and AI giant Nvidia has claimed that 'more than' 3,000 exaflops of compute is coming to Europe through Blackwell deployments.
The company detailed a number of already announced and new projects across the continent that it believes will add up to the figure.
Nvidia did not disclose the benchmark used, but it is almost certainly an AI focused one like HPL-AI, rather than the standard higher precision HPL found in the recent Top500 report.
The projects span France, Italy, Spain, and the UK.
In France, Nvidia said that it is working with Mistral AI for a cloud platform with 18,000 Grace Blackwell systems in the first phase, with plans to expand across multiple sites in 2026.
In May, the two companies announced a 1.4GW campus outside Paris backed by French national investment bank Bpifrance and UAE investment fund MGX.
“France is committed to investing in AI to strengthen our economy, benefit our citizens and uphold our values,” said French President Emmanuel Macron.
“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.”
In the UK, Nvidia this week already announced that Nscale would deploy 10,000 Blackwell GPUs by the end of 2026, while Nebius would deploy 4,000.
“Just as coal and electricity once defined our past, AI is defining our future,” said UK tech secretary Peter Kyle.
“Nvidia's expansion of its technology center here in the UK 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."
Over in Germany, Nvidia announced a new industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. The AI factory will feature Nvidia DGX B200 systems and RTX Pro Servers, with 10,000 Blackwell GPUs.
In Italy, Domyn will deploy a Colosseum supercomputer with an undisclosed number of Grace Blackwell Superchips. The announcement is not new, just the name - with iGenius rebranding to Domyn this week. The supercomputer was announced in April.
Alongside the specific deployments, Nvidia said that it was working on sovereign AI infrastructure with telcos Orange, Fastweb, Telenor, Swisscom, and Telefónica. With the latter operator, Nvidia said that the telco was piloting a distributed Edge AI fabric across Spain with 'hundreds of GPUs.'
“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.”
