US-based artificial intelligence chip maker Cerebras said on Thursday that it plans to bring its first European data centre capacity online by the end of 2026, followed by a rapid expansion across France and the Nordics, boosting its AI computing capacity in Europe. <\/p>\n
Cerebras said in a statement that demand for local, low-latency AI infrastructure has surged across European businesses, research institutions and governments seeking alternatives to compute capacity concentrated in the US and Asia. <\/p>\n
The company plans to build a network of AI data centres across Europe by the end of 2027, with a combined power capacity of 200 MW. <\/p>\n
Power capacity is the main yardstick for AI data centres because electricity has become the key constraint on expanding AI computing. For comparison, smaller enterprise data centres typically consume between 1 and 20 MW, whereas hyperscale facilities operated by cloud providers can draw 100 MW or more. <\/p>\n
Cerebras said that part of its planned data centre capacity is expected to support OpenAI workloads under the companies’ existing partnership. <\/p>\n
“These are massive expansions” worth several billion dollars, chief executive Andrew Feldman told AFP on the sidelines of the RAISE Summit in Paris. <\/p>\n
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The expansion comes as AI infrastructure investment accelerates across Europe, where Nvidia says its technology powers more than 90% of the continent’s announced AI factory projects. <\/p>\n
Cerebras’ expansion is expected to provide high-speed AI inference infrastructure to European users, helping deliver faster response times for increasingly complex AI workloads. <\/p>\n
“These deployments will enable us to move decisively on what our customers have been asking for: fast, high-performance AI compute located in Europe,” Feldman said in the company statement. <\/p>\n
Founded in 2015, Cerebras has focused on chips dedicated to AI inference. <\/p>\n
The process, through which AI models provide responses to users’ everyday prompts, has different requirements from the intensive process of “training” a new AI system. <\/p>\n
Appetite for inference-specific chips has exploded as more people use AI agents, a new type of interface that can carry out tasks autonomously on behalf of users. <\/p>\n
Agents require vastly expanded computing resources from companies such as Cerebras, Nvidia and AMD. <\/p>\n
But transatlantic tensions have made many governments and firms wary of overreliance on US providers. <\/p>\n
In Europe, demand for computing power to run generative AI is “extraordinary… growing very, very quickly”, Feldman told AFP, adding that the sector’s growth is “faster than we can keep up”. <\/p>\n
“By putting data centres across Europe… we think that we can meet all the unique European requirements” on issues such as data sovereignty, he added. <\/p>\n
The AI infrastructure boom helped Cerebras raise $5.5bn in its initial public offering (IPO) in the US in May, making it one of the 15 largest IPOs in Wall Street history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US-based artificial intelligence chip maker Cerebras said on Thursday that it plans to bring its first European data…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47338,47369,1943,4,1453,36987,47368],"class_list":["post-90381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-europe","tag-andrew-feldman","tag-cerebras","tag-data-centre","tag-europe","tag-expansion","tag-power-capacity","tag-rapid-expansion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}