€70 Million Gaia AI Factory to be established in Poland

Poland has launched the Gaia AI Factory project under the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). This new AI-focused supercomputer is located in Kraków and operated by the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH. The 10 exoflops supercomputer project will include over 1,000 GPU accelerators for AI training and inference workloads which would deliver […]

Delska opens 10 MW AI-focused data center in Latvia

Delska, a data center operator in the Baltics, has opened a 10 MW facility built for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). The facility, named EU North Riga LV DC1, intends to address capacity constraints in major European data center hubs and reflects a broader push to position the Baltics as a competitive location […]

New AI and data center to boost research infrastructure in Berlin

Berlin’s research landscape will soon get a new AI facility and data center through a collaboration between the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). The center aims to provide scalable, secure infrastructure for high-performance computing (HPC), data management, and AI applications. According to a press release, development will start in 2026-2027 with consolidated […]

solutions by stc signs US$ 372 million HPC infrastructure deal with Saudi Aramco

solutions by stc, a Saudi Arabian digital infrastructure player that is part of the wider stc Group, has signed a SAR 1.4 billion (~ US$ 372 million) agreement with Saudi Aramco, a Saudi-owned integrated energy and chemicals company, to provide advanced high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure to support operations in the energy exploration and production sector. […]

Mistral AI and EcoDataCenter invest €1.2 billion in Swedish AI Data Center

Mistral AI, a French generative artificial intelligence (AI) company, and EcoDataCenter, a sustainable data center operator and high-performance computing (HPC) service provider, have announced a €1.2 billion (US$ 1.4 billion) partnership to build an AI-focused data center at EcoDataCenter’s Borlänge site in Sweden. The project, set to open in 2027, marks Mistral AI’s first AI […]

Imperial College and Digital Realty launch HPC system to advance AI and scientific research

Imperial College London, a research university specializing in Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Business, has partnered with Digital Realty a global data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions provider, to host the university’s first direct liquid-cooled (DLC), high-performance computing (HPC) system at the company’s Woking data center.  The deployment represents a major step in Imperial’s effort to […]

Compute Nordic gets permission to build 212 MW data center in Finland

Compute Nordic Ltd, a Norway-based data center developer and operator, has received formal approval of construction permits, and completed execution of power agreements, to develop 212 MW of IT compute capacity for the first phase of its AI Training and Inference Campus in Mikkeli, Finland. This achievement establishes the foundation for one of the most […]