MGX, Mistral and Bpifrance scale Campus AI to 3GW across France

MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral have announced the planned expansion of Campus AI in France, with a goal of developing up to 3 GW of compute capacity nationwide.

Campus AI’s imminent selection of a second site doubles the initial investment by the consortium and its partners and is the natural next step in the development of a leading panEuropean network of AI factories, extending the programme beyond the flagship Fouju campus in Seine-et-Marne.

Campus AI is a joint venture between Bpifrance, the French public investment bank; Mistral, the European pioneer in generative artificial intelligence; MGX, a global AI and advanced technology investment firm; and NVIDIA, the global leader in accelerated computing.

The expansion reinforces France’s position as Europe’s primary destination for large-scale, decarbonised AI factories; and meets Europe’s accelerating demand for responsible and sustainable tokens.

As Campus AI scales nationwide, it will continue to support the growth of Mistral, its shareholder and anchor French AI champion, by providing access to compute capacity at scale across sites.

The announcement was made at the Choose France Summit and witnessed by Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, and Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi and Secretary General of the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council, underscoring the strategic importance of Campus AI for both France and the UAE.

The expansion will create thousands of jobs across France and is being developed in close partnership with French industrial champions in power, batteries, semiconductors, electronics and other critical technologies.

By bringing together the full French industrial value chain, Campus AI aims to contribute positively to France’s technological sovereignty and accelerate the emergence of a competitive European AI ecosystem.

This expansion follows rapid progress at the original Fouju campus, where local elected officials and community leaders have worked alongside Campus AI to bring jobs and investment to the Seine-et-Marne territory.

Designed to the highest standards of environmental performance and powered by France’s highly decarbonised electricity grid, the campus model combines waterfree cooling with an energy-efficient design to scale AI capacity sustainably. The selection of a second site will follow the same approach: close coordination with local authorities, high environmental standards, and an industrial model designed to enable European AI champions while reinforcing France’s position at the centre of a sustainable AI future for Europe.

Thibaud Desfossés, President of Campus AI, said: “France has the power, the talent and the research base to lead Europe in AI. The question now is what France does with each gigawatt it builds. Scaling Campus AI toward 3GW is how we answer it: an open platform, built with our French industrial and territorial partners, that pulls French suppliers further up the value chain and gives French AI champions the scale they could not otherwise reach.

This is the partnership France and the UAE set out to build, and the test we hold ourselves to is simple: every gigawatt should compound value in France, not simply flow through it.”

Meanwhile last year the French national investment bank, and MGX, the UAE investment fund focused on artificial intelligence and advanced technology, together with Mistral AI, and NVIDIA, announced the formation of a joint venture to establish Europe’s largest AI Campus, which will be located in the Paris region and is expected to ultimately reach a capacity of 1.4 GW.

This strategic initiative builds on broader AI cooperation agreements supported by President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and French President Emmanuel Macron at the AI Action Summit in February 2025.

Located in Europe’s leading economic zone, the AI Campus marks a major step toward establishing sovereign, sustainable, and globally competitive AI infrastructure across the continent.

The joint venture signing ceremony was witnessed by Eric Lombard, French Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, and Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority and member of the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council.

Together, the partners will develop Europe’s first purpose-built intelligence hub supporting the full AI lifecycle, from model training and inference to deployment of generative and applied AI systems. Strategically located to integrate with France’s research and innovation ecosystems, the Campus will feature advanced compute infrastructure, facilities for experimentation, and real-world development environments.

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