{"id":115391,"date":"2026-07-22T19:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/115391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:56:15","slug":"microsoft-strikes-deal-for-mistrals-ai-computing-power-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/115391\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft strikes deal for Mistral’s AI computing power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft<\/a> on Tuesday sought to reassure European users with a “multi-billion-dollar” deal to rent AI infrastructure from Mistral, hoisting the French developer into the lucrative business of renting compute capacity.<\/p>\n

Mistral’s own AI models<\/a> will also be offered directly to Microsoft clients through its tools including AI assistant Copilot.<\/p>\n

The agreement “strengthens Europe’s AI infrastructure while helping Microsoft meet growing demand for cloud and AI services” on the continent, the two companies said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

Neither company specified the exact dollar value of the deal or the amount of computing power Mistral would supply.<\/p>\n

But the French firm has targeted 200 megawatts of capacity by 2027 and aims by 2030 to reach one gigawatt — roughly equivalent to the output of one of France’s dozens of nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n

Mistral told AFP that the tie-up “gives us greater visibility to speed up the financing and development of Mistral Compute”, its cloud and AI infrastructure business.<\/p>\n

Founded three years ago and with 1,000 staff, Mistral is ploughing four billion euros ($4.6 billion) into data centres in France and Europe, with one already operational outside Paris and another under construction in Sweden.<\/p>\n

Its ambitions remain relatively small compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars and gigawatts of compute being built by American firms.<\/p>\n

But it joins the multiple generative AI developers now selling computing power to others as the industry expands and high-end chips grow scarce.<\/p>\n

For instance, Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI struck a deal with Anthropic in May.<\/p>\n

The AI lab behind the Claude chatbot is also in talks for a deal worth billions to use infrastructure belonging to Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, according to media reports.<\/p>\n

Microsoft insisted that using infrastructure located physically in Europe could address clients’ growing concerns about dependence on US tech firms in a time of transatlantic discord.<\/p>\n

“Europe should have access to the world\u2019s most capable AI without compromising control over their data, operations or digital future,” Microsoft President Brad Smith said in the statement.<\/p>\n

The company has sought to position itself as the cloud computing provider most compatible with European tech sovereignty concerns.<\/p>\n

Clients could run the Mistral models available through Copilot on Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure or their own local hardware, the American company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft on Tuesday sought to reassure European users with a “multi-billion-dollar” deal to rent AI infrastructure from Mistral,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5908,24,2482,53,420,7853,19459,182,416,140,13931,1148,7820,58827,58826,1149,1122,320,7852,9120,58828,7837,19549,12715,156],"class_list":["post-115391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","tag-afp","tag-ai","tag-american","tag-anthropic","tag-azure","tag-azure-copilot","tag-brad-smith","tag-claude","tag-copilot","tag-elon-musk","tag-european","tag-facebook","tag-france","tag-french","tag-https-businessreport-co-za-search-querymicrosoft","tag-instagram","tag-meta","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-copilot","tag-mistral","tag-mistral-compute","tag-paris","tag-spacexai","tag-sweden","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}