Scaleway, the cloud unit of France's iliad group, used its ai-PULSE conference in Paris on October 13, 2026 to announce two new sites for large-scale AI computing in the Nordics. One, in the Stockholm area of Sweden, will be built around AMD Instinct MI355X accelerators. The other, in Copenhagen, will run on NVIDIA HGX B300 systems. Scaleway calls these dedicated sites GPU Zones, a category it is creating alongside its regular cloud Availability Zones for training and inference work.
The Swedish system is the more unusual of the two. Reuters reported that it will be Scaleway's first supercomputer outside France, and the company describes it as the first AMD-based AI supercomputer in Europe offered for commercial use, open to startups and businesses across the continent. Reuters also listed the supply chain: Bull, a French company, will build and service the system, Giga Computing supplies the servers, HPE the network, VAST Data the storage and Motul the coolant. AMD's EMEA chief Stephanie Dismore pointed to the company's open ROCm software stack as part of the appeal.
In Copenhagen, Scaleway says the B300 cluster will contain several thousand GPUs. The City of Copenhagen and the health AI firm Corti are already among its Danish clients, and the company says it chose the city for its technology sector, low-carbon electricity and a cool climate that reduces cooling needs. Chief executive Damien Lucas framed the move around European organisations wanting high-end compute from providers they trust.
Neither announcement came with a capacity figure in megawatts, a GPU count for Sweden or an opening date. Scaleway said that, together with Paris, its GPU Zones will eventually reach GPU counts in the tens of thousands, compute in the tens of exaflops and power draw in the tens of megawatts, a goal rather than a schedule.
The two sites sit inside a broader expansion. Scaleway completed a three-zone cloud region in Milan, plans three Availability Zones in Stockholm and three more in Frankfurt during 2027, and added GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and LightOn OCR 3 to its hosted model catalogue. It also said it is working with VSORA and ZML on an inference service based on the European Jotunn8 chip, and with Dataiku on hosting that company's platform.
The pairing of AMD and NVIDIA hardware is the strategic point. Most AI computing worldwide still runs on NVIDIA chips, and AMD's MI355X is its answer to NVIDIA's Blackwell generation. Offering both lets Scaleway pitch European customers on choice of architecture as well as on keeping data under EU jurisdiction, a pitch aimed, as Reuters noted, at companies keen to keep AI workloads under European law.
How much demand there is for that choice remains to be seen. Commercial uptake of AMD-based AI clusters in Europe is still limited compared with NVIDIA systems, and the sources do not include customer commitments or pricing for either site.