French consortium to bid for EU’s AI datacentre fund
The consortium says the project could reach 1 gigawatt of capacity and would double France’s computing power.
- The Scaleway-led AION consortium has submitted a bid for European Union funding to build a €10 billion AI data center in France, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
- Seeking to close the infrastructure gap with the United States and China, the European Commission launched a €20 billion InvestAI Facility earlier this year. "Europe can no longer afford to outsource the foundations of its AI future," Scaleway CEO Damien Lucas said.
- The project proposes a 200-megawatt facility featuring GPU clusters equivalent to more than 288,000 Nvidia H100s, backed by companies including Iliad, Ardian, and EDF.
- Competing against multi-state proposals from Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands, AION represents the largest single-country bid disclosed to the European Commission, which the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking will evaluate.
- While the European Commission received 76 expressions of interest in the initial sounding round, a final decision date remains unset; the consortium expects funding through private investment, bank lending, and anticipated InvestAI Facility grants.
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A French consortium named AION plans to build a massive data centre costing ten billion euros. This initiative aims to enhance Europe's artificial intelligence capabilities. The project seeks funding from the European Union's new twenty billion euro fund. Iliad is ready to invest four billion euros. The data centre will significantly increase France's computing power.
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