At GTC Paris during VivaTech, NVIDIA announced partnerships with European nations and technology leaders to build advanced AI infrastructure based on NVIDIA Blackwell systems. The initiative aims to strengthen digital sovereignty, support economic growth, and position Europe as a leader in the AI-driven industrial revolution.
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, emphasized the importance of this shift:
“Every industrial revolution begins with infrastructure. AI is the essential infrastructure of our time, just as electricity and the internet once were.”
France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom are developing domestic AI infrastructure in collaboration with companies such as Domyn, Mistral AI, Nebius, and Nscale, as well as major telecom providers Orange, Swisscom, Telefónica, and Telenor. Together, these deployments will deliver over 3,000 exaflops of NVIDIA Blackwell compute power, enabling European enterprises, startups, and the public sector to securely develop and deploy advanced AI applications.
NVIDIA is also expanding its network of AI technology centers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the UK, and Finland to accelerate research, workforce development, and scientific breakthroughs. In France, Mistral AI is building a cloud platform powered by 18,000 Grace Blackwell systems; in the UK, Nebius and Nscale will deploy 14,000 Blackwell GPUs in new data centers. In Germany, NVIDIA and its partners are constructing the world’s first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers, based on DGX B200 and RTX PRO Server systems.
These efforts represent a strategic investment in Europe’s future, as artificial intelligence becomes essential infrastructure for innovation and competitiveness on the global stage.
