Overview

• The European Commission announced additional AI factory sites in Czechia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Spain and the Netherlands.
• Member states together with the EU will invest more than €500 million to develop the new facilities.
• The sites are intended to provide start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises and industry with direct access to AI‑optimized supercomputing.
• German bids, including proposals from Deutsche Telekom, Ionos and the Schwarz Group’s IT unit, did not succeed in this selection.
• A previous award covered Stuttgart’s HammerHai project, and this report counts 19 designated AI factory locations overall while decisions on larger EU‑backed “Gigafactories” remain pending.