SWI Compute leaves stealth to build NVIDIA AI factories in Europe

SWI Compute has emerged from stealth as a new AI infrastructure company that will build and operate NVIDIA-based AI factories, launching first in Europe. It is backed by 3.6 gigawatts of power capacity that parent company SWI Group says it has spent six years securing across Europe and the US. SWI Compute became a Preferred NVIDIA Cloud Partner in August, has ordered about $1 billion of NVIDIA systems, and has finalized contracts with its first customers, including a US-based AI inference platform.

Its first large-scale AI factory will be in the UK, starting at 30 megawatts with close to 7,000 Rubin GPUs and 3,500 Vera CPUs in NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 racks, expected online by the end of 2027. That 30 MW is the initial phase of a UK campus planned to grow to 530 MW, part of a broader target of 2.3 gigawatts of NVIDIA AI factory capacity by 2029. The sites will use NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, and from 2027 new sites will follow NVIDIA's Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design, which NVIDIA says can enable up to 40% more GPU capacity within the same power budget.

SWI Group holds 3.6 GW of power capacity across 24 sites, with five European campuses in Ireland, the UK, Denmark, Spain, and Italy. The company's next generation of AI campuses across Europe is scheduled to come online starting in the fourth quarter of 2027.

Why it matters

It's another sign that power availability, not chips, is the real bottleneck shaping where new AI compute gets built.

Source: SWI Compute