SWI Compute plans European NVIDIA AI factories

SWI Compute describes itself as a new company of Euronext Amsterdam-listed SWI Group, set up to build and operate NVIDIA AI factories[1]. The company says it became a Preferred NVIDIA Cloud Partner in August and ordered approximately $1 billion of NVIDIA systems[1]. It has finalized contracts with its first customers, and says its first customer is a US-based AI inference platform that has contracted capacity[1].

SWI Compute says its first large-scale UK factory will begin with 30 megawatts and is expected to come online by the end of 2027[1]. It plans to equip that initial site with close to 7,000 Rubin GPUs and 3,500 Vera CPUs in NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 racks[1]. The initial site is described as the first phase of a campus planned to expand to 530 megawatts[1]. SWI Compute says the deployment will connect to NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking[1]. The announcement gives a schedule and target capacity, not confirmation that the facility is already operating.

SWI Compute says its first deployment will run NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra systems, with NVIDIA Vera CPU racks to follow[1]. It names Delta Computers as systems integrator, working alongside storage partners to deliver more than 8,000 GPUs[1]. The company says its first UK site is a step toward 2.3 gigawatts of NVIDIA AI factory capacity by 2029[1]. It also says its NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform codesigns compute, networking, power and cooling as an integrated system[1].

SWI Compute says it intends to deploy globally while concentrating its strongest presence and deployments in Europe[1]. It describes its services as designed to be close to customers’ users and data and under European jurisdiction[1]. The company offers dedicated and on-demand access, and names AI-native companies, AI labs and enterprises as intended customers[1]. SWI Group says its five European campuses are in Ireland, the UK, Denmark, Spain and Italy, and that one campus is already leased to a major hyperscaler[1]. SWI Group says it began investing in land, power and shell in 2020[1].