Cerebras Systems, an American artificial intelligence infrastructure company, has announced plans to expand its AI infrastructure presence in Europe to reach a total capacity to 200 MW by the end of 2027. It aims to bring its first European data center capacity online by the end of 2026, and scale operations across France and the Nordic region.
According to a press release, the expansion is intended to place Cerebras’ AI inference infrastructure closer to European customers, reducing the distance between computing resources and users as demand increases for AI applications that require faster response times and greater processing power.
Andrew Feldman, Co-founder and CEO, Cerebras, said, “We are contracting significant capacity for 2027, with data centers slated for Norway and Finland as we actively build across Europe, these deployments will enable us to move decisively on what our customers have been asking for: fast, high-performance AI compute located in Europe.”
Cerebras’ European build-out comes as companies, research organizations, and public sector institutions look to increase access to regional AI computing capacity. Many organizations have been seeking alternatives to relying primarily on infrastructure located in the United States and Asia, particularly as AI models become more demanding and are used for increasingly interactive applications.
The capacity is expected to support OpenAI workloads as part of the companies’ existing partnership, although Cerebras did not disclose the specific facilities or workloads that would be covered. The company’s planned facilities in Norway and Finland will form part of its broader European expansion, with additional capacity expected to come online as it builds out its regional footprint through 2027.