Publicly funded compute
EuroHPC AI Factories
Europe operates some of the world's fastest supercomputers. Through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, their GPU partitions are opened to researchers, startups and SMEs via grants and open calls — not a checkout page. We list them here, distinct from commercial cloud, so the comparison stays honest.
7 centres7 access modesGrant / open-call access
AI Factories & hosting centres
MeluXina (EuroHPC AI Factory)
🇱🇺 Luxembourg · HPC
74
JUPITER (EuroHPC AI Factory)
🇩🇪 Germany · HPC
70
Karolina (EuroHPC AI Factory)
🇨🇿 Czechia · HPC
70
Leonardo (EuroHPC AI Factory)
🇮🇹 Italy · HPC
70
LUMI (EuroHPC AI Factory)
🇫🇮 Finland · HPC
70
MareNostrum 5 (EuroHPC AI Factory)
🇪🇸 Spain · HPC
70
Vega (EuroHPC AI Factory)
🇸🇮 Slovenia · HPC
70
How access works
- How is EuroHPC access priced?
- It generally isn't a price list. Access is granted through calls and allocations (development, benchmark, extreme-scale, AI Factory access). We record these as grant-based access rather than inventing a €/GPU-hour figure.
- Who can apply?
- Eligibility varies by call — typically researchers, SMEs, startups and public bodies established in the EU or associated countries. Check each centre's access page.
- Why are they in a sovereignty directory?
- They are publicly funded, EU-hosted and EU-governed — the sovereign baseline. But grant access has no commercial DPA to cite, so their sovereignty score reflects that honestly.
Official programme: eurohpc-ju.europa.eu ↗