Polarise Plans to Participate in EU Tender for AI Gigafactories

Polarise, a European provider of sovereign AI cloud solutions, intends to participate as part of a consortium in the European Union (EU) tender for the establishment of up to seven AI gigafactories in Europe. Up to €10 billion in EU and national funding is available for the programme, which is intended to mobilise at least €20 billion in private investment.

Michel Boutouil, CEO of Polarise:

This tender provides exactly the impetus we have long been calling for: a connected ‘Gigagrid’ architecture instead of individual large-scale sites. Looking ahead, this means that a single large site will no longer necessarily be required – connected sites with a shared compute-equivalent capacity can also contribute to a powerful European AI infrastructure. Europe now has a narrow window of opportunity to build sovereign AI capacity. That is why we are contributing our experience and sites to a corresponding consortium and shaping European sovereignty together with strong partners.

Strong Positioning of Polarise

Polarise already has the operational foundation required for such an application: with the realised AI Factory in Munich’s Tucherpark and a site in Oslo, the company has proven experience in the development and operation of modern AI infrastructure. In addition, Polarise already has suitably prepared sites available today – two in Bavaria and one potential site in North Rhine-Westphalia.

At the technological level, Polarise is already able to provide capabilities that, under the tender framework, are in part only envisaged for later expansion stages. These include the managed ML-Ops and development platform (PaaS) Polarise Core, as well as integrated AI services such as Model-as-a-Service, inferencing and APIs via Polarise Drive, with a focus on open-source models.

Polarise is continuing to advance its site and platform projects independently of the tender and regards the EU programme as an accelerator, not a prerequisite. For the application, Polarise is open to partners for a powerful European consortium.

Further information on Polarise’s Gigagrid infrastructure is available here. Details about the EU tender can be found in the official press release here.

About Polarise

Founded in Germany, Polarise (www.polarise.eu) is a leading European AI infrastructure platform delivering high-performance computing (HPC) at scale through a combination of purpose-built AI data centres, advanced software capabilities and deep operational expertise.

As one of Europe’s preferred NVIDIA Cloud Partners and an NVIDIA Cloud Service Provider, Polarise enables enterprise and sovereign customers to deploy mission-critical AI workloads with high performance, security and reliability across the continent.

Press Contact

Marc Gazivoda Chief Marketing Officer press@polarise.eu