European AI cloud firm Nebius is deploying an Nvidia-based AI cluster in an Equinix data center in Paris, France.
The company, recently separated from Russian tech company Yandex, this week announced the launch of a new GPU cluster in Paris as part of the company’s plans to invest more than $1 billion in AI infrastructure in Europe by mid-2025.
Nebius said the new cluster will be among the first in Europe to offer Nvidia’s H200 Tensor Core GPUs. The company said it will also be one of the first to bring Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs to customers in 2025.
The cluster is located in Equinix’s PA10 campus in the Saint-Denis district of the French capital. The Paris facility will be the first equipped solely with Nebius-designed servers - the firm said it no longer uses third-party servers or racks. The data center in France will receive the first client workloads in November 2024.
The company said it has also signed letters of intent to build two new data centers – though details weren’t provided – and has started work on expanding its data center in Mäntsälä, Finland. The expansion will triple the facility's capacity upon completion in the first half of 2026.
Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, said: “We work in a new industry which requires both deep technology and significant capital. Our data center in Finland already provides the latest high-performance compute, tools and services to AI developers around the world. The addition of our new GPU cluster in Paris is the next step in our plan to expand Europe’s AI capacity as we develop Nebius into a leading global AI infrastructure company.”
Nebius was formed over the summer after the European operations of Yandex were split off from the Russian operations. The Amsterdam-based part of the firm retained the company’s Finnish data center, its Nebius AI unit, as well as data firm Toloka AI, edtech provider TripleTen, and autonomous driving firm Avride.
After the split, Nebius said it was “building one of the largest commercially available Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure businesses in Europe” and would scale its infrastructure to “tens of thousands” of GPUs.
The company currently operates one data center in Finland. Located in Mäntsälä, Uusimaa, the 40MW facility launched around 2014. It also exports heat to a local district heating network.
The site is home to the ISEG supercomputer; a 46.54 petaflops system equipped with Intel Xeon CPUs and Nvidia H100 GPUs. It is currently 16th on the Top500’s list of most powerful supercomputers.
