SWI Compute Debuts with Plans for NVIDIA AI Factories Across Europe – Unite.AI

SWI Compute, a new AI infrastructure company within the Euronext Amsterdam-listed SWI Group, emerged stealthily on October 26, 2026, announcing plans to build and operate NVIDIA AI factories starting in Europe, supported by 3.6 gigawatts of power capacity and approximately $1 billion in NVIDIA system orders.

The company became a Preferred NVIDIA Cloud Partner in August 2026 and has finalized contracts with its first customers, according to the launch announcement. SWI Compute said it will be rolled out globally, with its presence and strongest deployments in Europe.

CEO Halil Mirakhmedov described energy availability as the main bottleneck for Europe’s AI infrastructure, pointing out that it took SWI Group six years to gain access to the network. “Just two months after joining the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program, our team has secured approximately $1 billion in advanced hardware orders and executed initial contracts with customers,” he said, adding that the market continues to exceed available capacity.

First UK factory and roadmap to 2029

SWI Compute’s first large-scale AI factory, in the UK, will start with 30 MW of capacity, nearly 7,000 Rubin GPUs and 3,500 NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-mounted Vera CPUs, and is expected to be operational by the end of 2027. The company identifies Cambridge as the site of that first factory. The racks are connected via NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking.

The 30MW building is the initial phase of a UK campus that plans to grow to 530MW and, the company said, the first step towards 2.3GW of NVIDIA AI factory capacity by 2029.

Partner of the DSX platform and systems

Each SWI Compute site is built according to NVIDIA reference architectures. Going forward, the company will design, build and operate its AI factories with the full-stack NVIDIA DSX AI Factory platform, which co-designs compute, networking, power and cooling as a single integrated system. Each new site from 2027, starting with the UK campus, will follow the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design. SWI Compute said that DSX can enable up to 40% more GPU capacity with the same power budget on the Vera Rubin NVL72.

The first distribution runs NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra systems, followed by NVIDIA Vera CPU racks. From NVIDIA’s OEM and ODM ecosystem, SWI Compute has selected Delta Computers as its systems integrator, along with industry-recognized storage partners, to deliver more than 8,000 GPUs.

Nico Caprez, vice president of global AI infrastructure growth at NVIDIA, said that SWI Compute, built on NVIDIA reference architectures and adopting DSX for its next generation of AI factories, is building an infrastructure that can serve new customers and workloads and continue to drive value for years to come.

Customers and Power Foundation of the SWI Group

SWI Compute provides dedicated, on-demand access to NVIDIA AI factories for European AI natives, AI labs and enterprises, close to their users and data and under European jurisdiction. Its first customer, a US-based AI inference platform, has entered into a capacity contract. The company said that much of Europe’s AI development so far has relied on capabilities outside of Europe, and that existing capacity has been outsourced primarily to global hyperscalers and frontier labs capable of signing large-scale, multi-year contracts, leaving smaller AI natives with more difficulty securing it.

The company said an AI factory’s earnings are based on token output per megawatt, the number of years its systems continue to produce and the range of work they can perform. Continuous software optimization extends the useful life of installed systems for years after shipment, according to the company, and a single infrastructure foundation supports every stage of AI work, from pre-training to agent inference, as well as simulation, data processing and scientific computing.

SWI Group began investing in land, energy and facilities in 2020. It holds 3.6 GW of energy capacity in Europe and the US, with five European campuses in Ireland, the UK, Denmark, Spain and Italy, one of which is already leased to a major hyperscaler. The Group develops its sites from grid connection to commissioning and SWI Compute said it has access to up to 3.6GW of energy capacity across 24 sites.

Founder and CEO Max-Hervé George described SWI Compute as the final piece of the Group’s stack. “SWI Group is now a transatlantic, vertically integrated digital infrastructure company, from network connection to GPU,” he said.

SWI Compute provides computing services alongside AiOnX’s European campuses and SWI Digital’s US data centers, completing the Group’s AI stack. The SWI Group, born from the merger of Icona and Stoneweg, allocates over 80% of its capital to digital infrastructures.

Starting in Q4 2027, SWI Compute’s next generation of AI campuses across Europe will come online, with thousands of GPUs planned for deployment.