Details
- Status
- Open
- Reference
- EUROHPC-2026-CEI-AIGF-01
- Publication date
- 30 July 2026
- Opening date
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Deadline dates
- 3 Dec 2026, 17:00 / 4 Feb 2027, 17:00 (CET)
Description
Important announcement
In order to give Member States the necessary time to complete their national budgetary procedures and submit financial commitments for Medium-Scale AI Gigafactories (LOT 1) , the Contracting Authority has decided to extend the deadline for the receipt of tenders under the Call for Tenders for the selection of Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory Consortia interested in submitting proposals for the establishment of Medium-Scale AI Gigafactories under this Lot.
The new deadline for receipt of tenders for Lot 1 is 04/02/ 2027 17:00 Europe/Luxembourg.
The deadline for receipt of tenders for the Call to Selection of Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory Consortia for the establishment of Large-Scale AI Gigafactories (Lot 2) is unchanged.
The deadline for receipt of tenders for Lot 2 remains 03/12/2026 17:00 Europe/Luxembourg.
This change will be reflected in the Funding & Tenders Portal shortly
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.