MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI and NVIDIA form a joint venture for a 1.4 GW AI campus

2025-05-19 · Publisher : MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI, NVIDIA · Domain : Cloud & DevOps

At Choose France, MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI and NVIDIA announce a joint venture for Europe's largest AI campus in the Paris region, at 1.4 GW, with works planned for the second half of 2026.

### Background On 19 May 2025, at the Choose France summit in Versailles, Bpifrance, the Emirati fund MGX, Mistral AI and NVIDIA announce the creation of a **joint venture to develop Europe's largest AI campus**, in the Paris region, with an ambition of **1.4 GW**. Bouygues, EDF, École polytechnique, RTE and Sipartech join the project. It extends the Franco-Emirati agreement signed at the AI Action Summit in February 2025. Works should start in the second half of 2026, for commissioning by 2028. ### Key facts - Capacity: 1.4 GW targeted in the Paris region, presented as Europe's largest AI campus. - Founding partners: MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI and NVIDIA; project partners: Bouygues, EDF, École polytechnique, RTE, Sipartech. - Content: exascale-class compute, sovereign cloud and low-carbon data centres. - Cycle covered: model design, training, inference and implementation of use cases. - Schedule: works to start in the second half of 2026, commissioning planned by 2028. ### Why it matters This turns the February AI campus project into a concrete industrial set-up that brings together a funder, an electricity operator, a chip supplier and a model developer. For European IT departments, it announces AI compute located in France, but not in service before 2028. The investment amount is not detailed in the press release. ### Takeaway The Franco-Emirati AI campus takes the shape of a joint venture, with a 1.4 GW target and commissioning expected by 2028.

Tags : Datacenter, Europe, Souveraineté, NVIDIA, IA