French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites
A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands.
A consortium of French companies led by Iliad’s cloud subsidiary Scaleway has bid roughly $10bn to build one of the European Union’s planned AI gigafactories on French soil, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
The AION consortium proposes a 200-megawatt facility centred on next-generation GPU clusters equivalent to more than 288,000 current-generation Nvidia H100s, the largest single-country bid disclosed since the European Commission opened its gigafactory selection process.
The AION partner list, reads as a near-complete roll-call of the French AI stack. The named backers include GPU and chip-design specialists VSORA and SiPearl, model labs Kyutai and H Company, model-distribution platform Hugging Face, IT-services group Sopra Steria, consultancy Artefact, Atos’s compute subsidiary Eviden Bull, and developer-tooling company ZML.
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