--- title: French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five... description: A French consortium called AION, led by Iliad's cloud subsidiary Scaleway and backed by Hugging Face, Mistral-adjacent partners, GENCI, Inria, SiPearl, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/french-companies-bid-10bn-for-one-of-the-eu-s-five-planned-ai-gigafactory-sites-yzt4wwzhn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites | daily.dev og:description: A French consortium called AION, led by Iliad's cloud subsidiary Scaleway and backed by Hugging Face, Mistral-adjacent partners, GENCI, Inria, SiPearl, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/french-companies-bid-10bn-for-one-of-the-eu-s-five-planned-ai-gigafactory-sites-yzt4wwzhn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YZt4wwZHn.png og:image:alt: French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A French consortium called AION, led by Iliad's cloud subsidiary Scaleway and backed by Hugging Face, Mistral-adjacent partners, GENCI, Inria, SiPearl, and others, has submitted a ~$10bn bid to host one of the EU's five planned AI gigafactories. The proposed facility would feature 200MW of capacity equivalent to over 288,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, making it the largest single-country bid in the EU's InvestAI Facility programme. The consortium differentiates itself through an open-source and public-private framing, positioning the facility as part of European public-research compute infrastructure. AION competes against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands, with EuroHPC JU expected to announce a shortlist before year-end. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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