On February 11, 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that Europe will invest €206 billion Euro to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in Europe.

The announcement was made on the second day of Europe's Artificial Intelligence Action Summit on AI Safety in Paris, France on February 10-11 and it follows the announcement of $500 billion USD US Stargate AI project on January 21 that revealed that Europe had only a €1.5 billion Euro budget for AI.

Politico.eu wrote the following about the developments:

In just a week, Europe saw its artificial intelligence scene floundering in the face of American flexing, only to see it rebound with the rise of a cheap Chinese rival (DeepSeek).

(2025) European tech leaders respond to US $500 billion Stargate AI Project

The €206 billion Euro European AI investment push includes a €20 billion budget for four megalitic AI data centers.

We want to accelerate innovation, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the gathering of leaders and tech executives, declaring that global AI leadership is still up for grabs.

The EU investment push includes 20 billion euros to finance four AI gigafactories, to allow open, collaborative development of the most complex AI models.

Xavier Niel, a French billionaire tech investor responded that Europe must retain control over AI developments.

Models built in the US and China are not built with the same kind of life we have in Europe, said Niel, whose telecommunications firm Iliad recently pledged €3bn to advance AI development in France.

G42, an Abu Dhabi-based AI and cloud business, announced the start of the development of a 400 MW AI data center in France that will be ready mid 2025.

France and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to work together on a separate AI infrastructure project that could be worth up to €50 billion Euro and includes the construction of a 1GW AI data center.

New Interest in Mistral

French Mistral is the leading AI developer in Europe and competes with OpenAI, Google DeepMind AI, Anthropic and other AI developers. The company was valued at €5.8 billion in January 2025 and its growth has been one of the priorities of French President Emmanuel Macron, who launched a strategy to create AI champions in 2023 shortly after Mistral AI was founded.

TechCrunch writes that after the AI Action Summit event, Mistral gets down to business.

We've gone from a science company that focused on making the strongest models for laptops at the time, to a company that is now providing solutions to enterprises, that is making custom applications, that is bringing knowledge, productivity to workers, Mistral's co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch said at the summit.

(2025) Mistral gets down to business Source: TechCrunch

Mistral is already cooperating with big industrial organizations such as Cisco and Stellantis.

At the AI Action Summit, John Elkann, Stellantis’ chairman, announced a wide-ranging deal with Mistral. We are already actually doing a lot of things jointly within our own internal organization, Elkann said.

Later this year, the car manufacturer behind the brands Peugeot, Citroën, Fiat, and Jeep will update its mobile app to replace the owner's manual with a Mistral-powered AI assistant.

Mistral Announces Defense Tech Alliance to Develop Military AI

Mistral announced a pact with German defense technology developer Helsing to develop military AI.

Helsing was founded in 2021 and develops software for weapons, vehicles, and military strategy. Its systems have been deployed in fighter jets and drones.

Mistral to build Europe's first megalitic AI data center

During the AI Safety Summit on February 10-11, Mistral's co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch announced plans to build a state-of-the-art AI data center in Essonne to the south of Paris. Mensch told French outlet Le Parisien that the site will be operational in the next few months and that the data center will represent an investment of several billions of euros.

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