Europe announces deployment of 35 NVIDIA AI supercomputers to build the region's largest AI computing capacity expansion

BlockBeats News, June 22 — NVIDIA announced that Europe is building or deploying 35 AI and HPC supercomputers, covering 23 countries and research institutions, becoming Europe’s largest-scale supercomputer expansion plan within a year.

These systems are based on NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper architectures, and combine the CUDA-X, NVIDIA NIM, and AI Enterprise software stack to support fields such as climate science, medical research, clean energy, and quantum computing. Official data shows that the related infrastructure will serve more than 3 million researchers.

NVIDIA said its AI infrastructure has supported the construction of over 90% of AI factories in Europe, with a cumulative deployment or planned deployment of approximately 800 AI exaflops of computing power.

In terms of specific projects, institutions including the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Germany’s HLRS, Italy’s CINECA, and Sweden’s NAISS are all advancing the construction of AI factories based on NVIDIA GPUs, and some systems have reached the tens of exaflops level in training and inference performance.

In addition, the plan also includes cooperation with Siemens Energy in hydrogen-powered gas turbine R&D, as well as research into quantum and GPU integrated computing promoted on the CUDA-Q platform.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said that AI is becoming a “new scientific instrument,” helping researchers accelerate complex system simulations and scientific discoveries.