EU Opens Tender for Up to Seven AI Gigafactories to Expand Sovereign Compute

The European Union has opened a tender for up to seven AI Gigafactories, a new layer of sovereign AI infrastructure meant to narrow Europe’s gap with the United States and China. The call, launched on July 30, 2026, pairs up to €10 billion in EU and national public funding with an expected €20 billion or more in private investment, targeting more than €30 billion in total financing for large-scale facilities capable of training, fine-tuning and running advanced AI models.