We got it. Millions of euros will flow to Poland for the new AI Factory.

• Polish scientists have won the competition to build the Artificial Intelligence Factory. This EU program creates advanced computing centers optimized for AI development.
• The Polish plant's budget is €70 million. Half will be paid by the EU's Euro HPC JU program, and the other half by the Polish government. The supercomputer will be built in Krakow, with Cyfronet AGH leading the consortium.
• This is the second such project. The first AI Factory will be built at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center .
• AI factories are part of the EU's strategy. The European Commission wants to at least participate in the technological race in which the US and China have already taken the lead.
• Industrial applications of artificial intelligence will be among the topics of the New Industry Forum (Katowice, October 14-15, 2025). Register today .

The Gaia AI Factory will be a new European center for the development of trusted artificial intelligence. The European agency Euro HPC JU has just announced the results of the next round of applications for the program. A Polish consortium led by Cyfronet AGH will receive €70 million for the expansion of the computer.

Over a thousand graphics cards will be delivered to Krakow

The construction of the AI ​​Factory aims to strengthen the Polish technological base needed to develop this promising technology. The project involves several parallel activities:

• Expansion of supercomputers . These are highly efficient machines that can process massive amounts of data in a short time (e.g., for scientific research, weather modeling, or AI training). Over a thousand GPU accelerators will be launched in Krakow. This means that the Gaia AI supercomputer will achieve computing power several times greater than the most powerful machine currently in Poland, Helios.
• Increasing access to large data sets needed to train algorithms and develop new technologies,
• Training and talent development programs that will help more people in Poland learn to work with AI and supercomputers.

In addition to Cyfronet AGH, the consortium creating the AI ​​Factory also includes: the Faculty of Space Technologies of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, the Wrocław Networking and Supercomputing Centre of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, the TASK Computer Centre of the Gdańsk University of Technology, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling of the University of Warsaw, the National Centre for Nuclear Research, the Scientific and Academic Computer Network NASK PIB, the Information Processing Centre OPI PIB, Sano – Centre for Individualised Computational Medicine – International Research Foundation, the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University, the Institute of Mother and Child, and the Krakow Technology Park.

Like other computers of this class, the Gaia AI supercomputer is to be integrated with the national PLGrid infrastructure, which will allow it to leverage the existing experience and know-how of Polish entities.

Three priority sectors for the new AI Factory: health, space, language models

The Polish project aims to support three main areas: health, space technologies, and the development of large-scale language models. What exactly will it help with?

According to the consortium members, the use of the Gaia AI supercomputer will enable faster and more accurate imaging diagnostics and medical data analysis, as well as personalized therapies and decision-making support for physicians. It will also enable the analysis of satellite data to monitor climate change, air quality, and natural disasters.

Thanks to the additional computing power, Poland will also improve citizen service in offices and multilingual translation in public services. The project will also include a series of training courses and workshops to help participants acquire new skills and improve their digital competences. As Marek Magryś, director of Cyfronet AGH, explains:

A key priority is ensuring that AI technology is accessible to everyone—from new startups and small businesses to established enterprises, research institutions, public institutions, and society at large. Regardless of an organization's level of experience, the Gaia AI Factory will provide the necessary tools to transform ideas into effective solutions.

The project will be financed half from European funds, with the other half contributed by the Ministry of Digital Affairs and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Why do we need an artificial intelligence factory?

The Gaia AI factory will be the second project of its kind in Poland. The first, PIAST AI, will be built at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center. The facility will collaborate with the Poznań University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań on its construction. Euro HPC JU announced its construction in March.

Poland – together with the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia and Norway – is also a member of the consortium that co-creates the AI ​​Factory being built at the Finnish supercomputer LUMI.

We discussed the construction of supercomputers at this year's European Economic Congress . The head of Cyfronet AGH argued that Poland is building them not only for scientists, but also to provide entrepreneurs with an alternative to Google and Microsoft in the computing market. Marek Magryś, director of Cyfronet AGH, explained how to take advantage of Polish high-performance computers at EEC 2025 in Katowice.

The entire conversation is below:

Why does Europe need high-performance computers?

Building a European computing infrastructure is one of the European Commission's priorities. Ursula von der Leyen spoke about it in this year's State of the EU address . One part of this project is building a network of Artificial Intelligence Factories. The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is responsible for this.

AI factories are intended to provide not only computing power for European scientists and entrepreneurs, but also create a network of cooperation between them.

The second pillar is the construction of so-called AI Gigafactories, meaning more powerful supercomputers. Funding for these projects is expected to come not only from the government, but also from business. Poland is the leader of the consortium that submitted the application for the so-called Baltic AI Gigafactory. The investment would have a budget of €3 billion, 65% financed by businesses. As part of the initiative, 30,000 GPU cards, components optimized for AI, are to be installed in Poland by 2029.

The aim of the initiatives is to create an infrastructure and ecosystem supporting the development of advanced artificial intelligence technologies, in line with European values ​​of trust, transparency and accountability, as well as supporting Europe's technological sovereignty.