The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC)  has selected seven proposals to establish and operate the first AI Factories across Europe. This is a major milestone for Europe in building a thriving ecosystem to train advanced AI models and develop AI solutions. The EU is now one step closer to realising President Ursula von der Leyen's commitment to setting up the first AI Factories.

The first AI Factories will represent a €1.5 billion investment, combining national and EU funding. Half of this amount will be funded by the EU through the Digital Europe Programme for AI infrastructure and Horizon Europe for AIF services. The selected AI Factories will be hosted at leading research and technology hubs across Europe:

• Barcelona, Spain: “BSC AIF” at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
• Bologna, Italy: “IT4LIA” at CINECA - Bologna Tecnopolo
• Kajaani, Finland: “LUMI AIF” at CSC
• Bissen, Luxembourg: “Meluxina-AI” at LuxProvide
• Linköping, Sweden: “MIMER” at the University of Linköping
• Stuttgart, Germany: “HammerHAI” at the University of Stuttgart
• Athens, Greece: “Pharos” at GRNET

The seven AI Factories involve 15 Member States and two EuroHPC participating States. Portugal, Romania and Türkiye have joined the BSC AIF; Austria and Slovenia have joined the ITA4LIA; and Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Norway and Poland have joined the LUMI AIF.