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Jensen Huang's European tour: business, lobbying and investment
Original title, in French: “Jensen Huang en tournée en Europe : entre business, lobbying et investissements”
- Publication
- FrenchWeb (France)
- Author
- Unsigned
- Published on
- 14 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
In Paris on 13 October 2026, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, announced investments in Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment and Entalpic, as part of a European tour that also includes London, Stockholm and Berlin. The article describes Nvidia's global strategy, which combines industrial diplomacy, startup financing and infrastructure sales, drawing on earlier examples in Saudi Arabia and South Korea. It details concrete deployments in Europe, including Deutsche Telekom's Industrial AI Cloud in Munich (nearly 10,000 Blackwell GPUs) used by Agile Robots and PhysicsX, as well as the European Commission's call for gigafactories (up to €10 billion in public funding and €20 billion in private funding). Huang claims $8 billion invested in European startups over twelve months, argues for regulating the uses of AI rather than the technology itself, and presents security tools for autonomous agents.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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8 USD bn
Total amount invested by Nvidia in European startups over the past twelve months (as claimed by Jensen Huang)
European startups, 12 months prior to October 2026
« Huang revendique 8 milliards de dollars investis dans les startups européennes sur les douze derniers mois et annonce 2 milliards supplémentaires à dévoiler dans les prochains jours. »
Source: Déclaration de Jensen Huang, PDG de Nvidia
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2 USD bn
Additional investments announced as coming in the next few days
European startups
« Huang revendique 8 milliards de dollars investis dans les startups européennes sur les douze derniers mois et annonce 2 milliards supplémentaires à dévoiler dans les prochains jours. »
Source: Déclaration de Jensen Huang, PDG de Nvidia
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10,000 GPUs
Number of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs installed in Deutsche Telekom's Industrial AI Cloud in Munich
Deutsche Telekom, Munich, February 2026
« Deutsche Telekom a mis en service son Industrial AI Cloud à Munich en février 2026, avec près de 10 000 GPU Nvidia Blackwell. »
Source: Deutsche Telekom
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485 TWh
Global electricity consumption of data centres in 2025
Worldwide, all data centres, 2025
« L’Agence internationale de l’énergie décrit ces obstacles et estime que la consommation électrique mondiale des centres de données pourrait passer de 485 TWh en 2025 à 950 TWh en 2030. »
Source: Agence internationale de l'énergie
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950 TWh
Projected global electricity consumption of data centres in 2030
Worldwide, all data centres, 2030 projection
« L’Agence internationale de l’énergie décrit ces obstacles et estime que la consommation électrique mondiale des centres de données pourrait passer de 485 TWh en 2025 à 950 TWh en 2030. »
Source: Agence internationale de l'énergie
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10 EUR bn
Public funding envisaged by the European Commission for AI gigafactories
European Union, call for projects open until 12 November, up to 7 projects
« Le dispositif envisage jusqu’à 10 milliards d’euros de financements publics et au moins 20 milliards d’investissements privés, avec des décisions attendues début 2027. »
Source: Commission européenne
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20 EUR bn
Private investment expected for European AI gigafactories
European Union, call for projects, minimum expected
« Le dispositif envisage jusqu’à 10 milliards d’euros de financements publics et au moins 20 milliards d’investissements privés, avec des décisions attendues début 2027. »
Source: Commission européenne
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96.2 USD bn
Nvidia quarterly revenue
Nvidia, worldwide, second quarter of fiscal year 2027, ended 26 July 2026
« Chiffre d’affaires trimestriel 96,2 Md$ »
Source: Résultats trimestriels de Nvidia et rapport déposé à la SEC
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89 USD bn
Quarterly revenue of Nvidia's Data Center division
Nvidia, second quarter of fiscal year 2027
« Chiffre d’affaires Data Center 89,0 Md$Au cours du trimestre »
Source: Résultats trimestriels de Nvidia et rapport déposé à la SEC
Classification
- Country
- France, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, United States, China
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- Healthcare, pharmaceuticals, social care · Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Industry and manufacturing · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms · Energy, utilities, environment
- Companies
- Deutsche Telekom (deploys AI), Nscale (supplier), PhysicsX (cited), Pigment (deploys AI), Alice & Bob (cited), Samsung (cited), Gradium (cited), NAVER (cited), Scaleway (supplier), Doctolib (deploys AI), Wayve (cited), Nokia (cited), HUMAIN (cited), Agile Robots (cited), Commission européenne (cited), Hugging Face (cited), SK Group (cited), Nebius (supplier), Agence internationale de l'énergie (cited), Genesis AI (deploys AI), Hyundai (cited), Entalpic (deploys AI), Mistral AI (supplier), Synthesia (cited), Nvidia (supplier)
- Keywords
- ai infrastructure, startup investment, digital sovereignty, data centres, gpu, ai regulation
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