TAIPEI (TVBS News) — Technology giant NVIDIA unveiled ambitious plans Wednesday (June 11) to construct the world's first Industrial AI Cloud in Europe, marking a pivotal expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure across the continent. CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) made the groundbreaking announcement during a high-profile presentation in Paris, France, outlining the company's comprehensive strategy to revolutionize European manufacturing through cutting-edge AI-driven innovations. The initiative represents NVIDIA's most significant European investment to date, positioning the region as a global hub for industrial artificial intelligence development and deployment.
Huang disclosed the comprehensive scope of NVIDIA's European expansion during the company's prestigious GTC conference, revealing plans to establish AI technology centers across seven countries alongside more than 20 specialized AI factories throughout the continent. The centerpiece of this ambitious initiative involves constructing a massive Industrial AI Cloud facility in Germany, featuring an impressive array of 10,000 advanced graphics processing units. NVIDIA's official press release projects that these coordinated efforts will dramatically enhance Europe's AI computing capacity by a factor of ten within the next two years.
The semiconductor powerhouse, recognized worldwide as a dominant force in AI chip manufacturing, has successfully proven the exceptional performance of its graphics processing units for sophisticated generative artificial intelligence applications. Huang highlighted NVIDIA's strategic partnership with French startup Mistral AI, announcing plans to develop an advanced cloud computing platform powered by an extraordinary 18,000 next-generation Blackwell high-performance chips. This collaboration represents a significant technological milestone, combining NVIDIA's cutting-edge hardware capabilities with Mistral AI's innovative software expertise to create unprecedented computing power for European artificial intelligence development.
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch underscored the project's massive financial scale, emphasizing that the initiative will deploy sophisticated hardware infrastructure valued at billions of euros while significantly strengthening Europe's position in global technological leadership. NVIDIA also announced strategic plans to collaborate with search engine company PERPLEXITY, creating innovative connections between regional AI models and advanced search engine capabilities. Huang expressed considerable optimism regarding quantum computing's future prospects, declaring that the technology's crucial turning point has finally arrived, with promising potential applications for solving complex computational problems expected to emerge within the next few years. ◼
