Scaleway to build AMD-powered AI supercomputer in Sweden

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Scaleway builds AI supercomputer in Sweden

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Scaleway announced it will build Europe's first commercial AMD-based AI supercomputer in Sweden using AMD Instinct MI355X chips, expanding regional AI capacity.
The project leverages Sweden's low-carbon electricity and local AI sector, following Scaleway's May partnership with Tele2 for cloud and AI services.
The supercomputer will be assembled and maintained by Bull, using Giga Computing servers, HPE networking, VAST Data storage, and Motul cooling liquid.

Sweden project expands European AI capacity

As reported by Reuters, Scaleway said on Tuesday at its annual AI conference in Paris that the new machine will be the first AMD-based AI supercomputer for commercial use in Europe. The company said the platform will be open to startups, AI companies and businesses across the region.

The system will run on AMD Instinct MI355X chips, AMD's answer to Nvidia's Blackwell line, which powers much of the world's AI computing. AMD chips already support European research supercomputers, including LUMI in Finland, while U.S. cloud firms such as Oracle and Vultr also rent AMD chips to customers in Europe.

Stephanie Dismore, AMD's senior vice president for EMEA, said the project expands the AI infrastructure choices available to European customers through AMD Instinct GPUs and the company's open ROCm software ecosystem. ROCm is open-source and supports widely used AI programming tools that also work on Nvidia chips, while Nvidia's CUDA is proprietary and tied to Nvidia hardware.

Low-carbon power and local partnerships support rollout

Scaleway said it chose Sweden because of the country's largely low-carbon electricity supply and its AI sector. The company entered the Swedish market in May, when it signed a deal with telecom operator Tele2 to sell cloud and AI services there.

Tele2 business-to-business head Stefan Trampus said the supercomputer sends a clear signal about Sweden's attractiveness for AI infrastructure. The machine will be assembled and maintained by French firm Bull, with servers from Giga Computing, networking from HPE, storage from VAST Data and cooling liquid from Motul.

Our earlier report on Germany’s AI training data rules highlighted a warning from the ifo institute that tighter restrictions on access to training data could significantly reduce the country’s projected economic gains from generative AI. The piece noted that regulatory uncertainty and stricter data requirements risk discouraging investment and weakening Europe’s AI sector as global competition intensifies.

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