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France laid out plans to advance local AI — from new AI factories and national compute capacity to open frontier models and industrial platforms. Now, that AI infrastructure is coming online. AI agents are running in production, startups are deploying applications and the French AI ecosystem is developing models, datasets and platforms designed around local languages, cultural context and European requirements.
A year ago at NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech, France laid out plans to advance local AI — from new AI factories and national compute capacity to open frontier models and industrial platforms.
Now, that AI infrastructure is coming online. AI agents are running in production, startups are deploying applications and the French AI ecosystem is developing models, datasets and platforms designed around local languages, cultural context and European requirements.
France’s AI ambitions are gaining momentum. Billions in investment commitments through France 2030, the 2025 AI Action Summit and this year’s Choose France Summit are reinforcing the country’s position as one of Europe’s leading destinations for AI infrastructure.
As part of these efforts, Mistral is building a new 44-megawatt data center in Bruyères-le-Châtel, a commune in northern France. Announced at GTC Paris last year, Mistral’s first deployment is already operational with 18,000 NVIDIA GB200 systems — laying the foundation for the company’s roadmap of 200 megawatts of compute capacity across Europe by 2027.
The NVIDIA Blackwell platform is designed to help AI factories maximize throughput within fixed power budgets, combining higher performance‑per‑watt silicon with software features that boost data center throughput in power‑constrained environments.
Mistral is also working with French public investment bank Bpifrance, AI and advanced tech investment company MGX and NVIDIA to expand Campus AI, a network of AI factories anchored by a planned 1.4-gigawatt facility, making it one of Europe’s largest AI campuses.