Call for tenders for the selection of Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory Consortia and the establishment of AI Gigafactories

The overall objective of this Call is the selection of Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory (AIGF) Consortia, which will establish and operate the AIGFs and from which the Contracting Parties will acquire AI compute access time.

• Call for proposals
• Open

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Status: Open Reference: EUROHPC-2026-CEI-AIGF-01 Publication date: 30 July 2026 Opening date: 30 July 2026 Deadline model: Single-stage Deadline date: 3 December 2026, 17:00 (CET)

Description

AIGFs should aim to provide a world-class sovereign AI computing infrastructure for European researchers, public authorities, entrepreneurs, industries, and SMEs. They shall strengthen the European industry, enable the development of entirely new AI solutions, strengthen the European AI value chains in both software and hardware, and ensure the EU's competitiveness and sovereignty as an AI Continent. To achieve this, they will integrate massive AI computing power, together with energy-efficient data centres, and AI-driven automation to optimise AI model training, inference, and services deployment.

To qualify as an AIGF, each facility must integrate at least three to four times the number of the most advanced AI processors currently available in the most powerful European AI factories. In addition to computational scale, AIGFs must demonstrate adequate power capacity infrastructure and incorporate best practices in energy efficiency, water efficiency, and circularity principles in their design and operations.

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