What are EuroHPC AI Gigafactories?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Gigafactories refers to advanced large-scale facilities with sufficient capacity to handle the complete lifecycle of very large AI models and applications, from development to large-scale inference as laid out in the updated Council Regulation. These AI Gigafactories providing supercomputing service infrastructures, composed of AI-optimised computing capacity, supporting data centre infrastructures (including high-capacity storage and networking), dedicated secure cloud user access environments, and specialised secure AI-oriented support services.
They offer powerful resources for developing next-generation AI models, catering to researchers, private and public AI users, especially SMEs, start-ups, and scale-ups within Europe.