Hypertec has announced a planned European expansion in partnership with 5C Group and Together AI. The initiative will deliver up to 2 gigawatts (GW) of AI-dedicated data center capacity and support nearly 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell and next-generation graphics processing units (GPUs) for AI workloads. Initial deployments will begin in late 2025, with further infrastructure coming online through 2028.
According to the partners, this marks their first joint AI infrastructure deployment outside North America. The initiative aims to address Europe’s increasing demand for sovereign, regulation-compliant, and high-density compute resources for frontier model training, inference workloads, and open-source generative AI applications. France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Portugal are the first target markets under evaluation.
The planned data centers will be designed for high-density AI clusters, supporting more than 200 open-source, optimized models such as DeepSeek and Llama large language models. The installations will incorporate advanced cooling systems and are expected to accelerate deployment timelines, synchronize infrastructure rollout, and optimize for regulatory compliance. The buildout includes an initial 600 megawatts coming online in 2025 and 2026 as part of the overall 2 GW target capacity through 2029.
Hypertec has stated it is pursuing targeted acquisitions and partnerships with local and international players to align with European sustainability and digital sovereignty requirements. The collaboration will provide a unified AI stack combining server hardware, data center construction and operations, cloud platform capabilities, and support for researchers, enterprises, and AI-native companies.
“From engineering data centers and compute infrastructure to deploying and operating GPU clusters with advanced cooling technologies, we deliver unmatched performance, reliability, and speed. With Together AI and Hypertec, we are bringing this capability to Europe — tailored for local needs, digital sovereignty, and world-class sustainability,” said Jonathan Ahdoot, CEO of 5C Group.
“By bringing our high-performance AI Cloud and the powerful developer platform for model inference and fine-tuning to Europe, we’re enabling enterprises and researchers to harness open-source and custom frontier models with full control over performance, compliance, and cost. In partnership with 5C and Hypertec, we’re building a sovereign, sustainable AI cloud purpose-built for the EU market,” said Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO of Together AI.
This rollout builds on projects completed by 5C Group in North America, where it has retrofitted data centers and deployed large-scale GPU clusters for major AI customers over the last 18 months.
Source: Hypertec
