Announcement ·
An AMD-equipped data centre in Finland, more models and AI services added to its catalogue... Scaleway sees itself as a European alternative to the American giants
Original title, in French: “Un data center équipé par AMD en Finlande, plus de modèles et des services IA ajoutés à son catalogue... Scaleway se rêve en alternative européenne face aux géants américains”
- Publication
- L'Usine Digitale (France)
- Author
- Célia Séramour
- Published on
- 13 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
French cloud provider Scaleway announces, at its ai-PULSE conference on 13 October 2026, the deployment of a supercomputer equipped with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs in Sweden, presented as a European first for commercial use, as well as an expansion of its Nvidia GPU capacity in Copenhagen and additions to its catalogue of AI models (GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, LightOn OCR 3, with Mistral Large 4 coming soon). The company points out that it was selected by the European Commission for the Cloud III framework (€180 million), that it was designated to host the French Health Data Hub, and that it signed a contract with Airbus for engineering and production applications. Its cited client portfolio also includes Alpine, ATR, France Télévisions, LVMH, MAIF and Natixis. Scaleway is also broadening its offering through a partnership with Dataiku and the acquisition of Qarnot, and is taking part in the AION consortium for a European AI gigafactory.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on L'Usine Digitale →Figures cited
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180 EUR million
Value of the European Commission's Cloud III framework for purchasing sovereign cloud services
European Union, over a period of up to six years
« un programme d’achat de services cloud souverains doté d’une enveloppe de 180 millions d’euros sur une période pouvant atteindre six ans »
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288,000 H100 GPU equivalents
Planned computing capacity for the AION project's AI gigafactory
AION project, French bid for a European AI gigafactory
« Le projet envisage une capacité de calcul équivalente à plus de 288 000 H100, soit environ 200 MW. »
Classification
- Country
- France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Germany, Poland
- Company size
- Large companies, SMEs
- Industries
- Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms · Industry and manufacturing · Healthcare, pharmaceuticals, social care · Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Media, communications, marketing
- Companies
- Giga Computing (supplier), HPE Networking (supplier), Tele2 (cited), Gigabyte (supplier), Natixis (cited), Scaleway (supplier), Motul (supplier), Dataiku (supplier), LVMH (cited), Bull (supplier), Qarnot (supplier), VSORA (supplier), VAST Data (supplier), Commission européenne (deploys AI), Alpine (cited), France Télévisions (cited), ZML (supplier), Iliad (cited), Airbus (deploys AI), Health Data Hub (deploys AI), MAIF (cited), AMD (supplier), ATR (cited), Nvidia (supplier)
- Keywords
- sovereign cloud, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, supercomputer, GPU, data centre
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