France Advances Europe's AI Future With NVIDIA Technologies

France laid out plans to advance local AI - from new AI factories and national compute capacity to open frontier models and industrial platforms. Now, that AI infrastructure is coming online. AI agents are running in production, startups are deploying applications and the French AI ecosystem is developing models, datasets and platforms designed around local languages, cultural context and European requirements.

French AI Infrastructure Takes Shape France's AI ambitions are gaining momentum. Billions in investment commitments through France 2030, the 2025 AI Action Summit and this year's Choose France Summit are reinforcing the country's position as one of Europe's leading destinations for AI infrastructure. As part of these efforts, Mistral is building a new 44-megawatt data center in Bruyères-le-Châtel, a commune in northern France.

Announced at GTC Paris last year, Mistral's first deployment is already operational with 18,000 NVIDIA GB200 systems - laying the foundation for the company's roadmap of 200 megawatts of compute capacity across Europe by 2027. The NVIDIA Blackwell platform is designed to help AI factories maximize throughput within fixed power budgets, combining higher performance‑per‑watt silicon with software features that boost data center throughput in power‑constrained environments. Mistral is also working with French public investment bank Bpifrance, AI and advanced tech investment company MGX and NVIDIA to expand Campus AI , a network of AI factories anchored by a planned 1.

4-gigawatt facility, making it one of Europe's largest AI campuses. This momentum reflects a broader wave of AI infrastructure investment in France. Scaleway, a European public cloud provider, now offers NVIDIA Blackwell B300‑SXM instances, giving developers and enterprises access to accelerated computing on demand.

Bull and Foxconn have announced the production of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 in Europe. Systems will be manufactured and initially tested at Foxconn's facilities in the Czech Republic before being assembled, integrated and fully validated at Bull's factory in Angers, France. And a consortium of eight leading French companies has submitted a bid to host a European AI gigafactory in France to strengthen European AI infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption.

Meanwhile, Schneider Electric has teamed with NVIDIA to develop blueprints for gigawatt-scale AI factories, helping organizations accelerate AI infrastructure deployment. Open Models Underpin AI Development France's AI ecosystem is producing models, datasets and platforms tailored to local languages, cultural context, and European business and regulatory requirements. As AI agents become more capable, organizations are increasingly adopting systems of models, using the right model for the right task to improve accuracy, reduce costs and accelerate outcomes.

On stage at this year's VivaTech event, leaders from Gradium, H Company, LINAGORA, Pleias and NVIDIA explored the role of open models in enabling more transparent, customizable and locally relevant AI for governments, enterprises and developers. "What we see now is a shift from building one isolated model to running continuous model infrastructure, where models train the next models, curate data, generate synthetic environments and verify reinforcement learning," said Pierre-Carl Langlais, chief technology officer of Pleias.