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Nvidia, Schneider Electric to Build Europe’s AI Data Center Infrastructure

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Business Honor
16 June, 2025

Nvidia and Schneider Electric are working together to build advanced artificial intelligence data centers.

Nvidia and Schneider Electric have teamed up to help construct the infrastructure required for Europe's ambitious AI expansion. They are working together to address the European Commission's (EC) AI Continent Action Plan which calls for the construction of new data centers dubbed "AI gigafactories."

In order to build up to five large AI gigafactories and thirteen smaller ones around the European Union, the EC intends to invest €20 billion or roughly $22 billion. These facilities will house some 100,000 next-generation AI chips making a substantial contribution to Europe's growing supercomputing network.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated the important role AI gigafactories will play in delivering AI capabilities across all industries and referred to AI as the greatest disruptive force now changing the world. These advanced data centers are thought to serve as the basis for extensive AI combination.

The energetic infrastructure required supporting these facilities such as integrated software, cooling systems, and electrical systems, will be supplied by Schneider Electric. Pankaj Sharma, Executive Vice President of the Secure Power Division stated that Schneider Electric would be responsible for constructing the entire physical layer of the data centers.

He specified that Schneider will oversee all facets of the software, cooling and electrical infrastructure regardless of the client—whether it be Microsoft, Mistral or another company. The companies have already been working together on reference architectures for servers and data centers since last year. Additionally, they are employing Nvidia's Omniverse platform to develop on digital twins.

As part of this AI push, Nvidia says up to 3,000 AI exaflops of its new Blackwell chips could be coming to Europe. However, it's still unclear how much of that will be running on Schneider’s infrastructure. This partnership marks an important step in building energy-efficient, high-performance data centers to support Europe's growing AI ecosystem.