EuroHPC Announces Further Locations for AI Factories
Summary
On March 12, 2025, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (“EuroHPC”) announced it has selected a further six locations to host AI factories (in addition to the first seven locations selected back in December, as covered in our last alert):
- Vienna, Austria
- Sofia, Bulgaria at Sofia Tech Park
- Poznan, Poland at PIAST-AI center
- Maribor, Slovenia at the Institute of Information Sciences
- Julich, Germany
- Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France
These newly selected factories will be supported by combined investment from member states and the EU totalling around €485 million.
This follows the announcement by European Commission (“EC”) President Ursula von der Leyen at the AI Action Summit in Paris last month, in which she launched InvestAI – an initiative which will invest €200 billion into mobilising AI in Europe. A major part of the plan involves a €20 billion fund dedicated to the development and construction of AI ‘gigafactories’ and facilities, which will focus on training advanced AI models through state-of-the-art semiconductor technologies.
