Central and Eastern Europe just got its first serious shot of AI superpower; and it’s not coming from Berlin or Paris. It’s from Poland.
Yep, Poland’s Beyond.pl just launched what it’s calling a “sovereign AI Factory” — powered by Nvidia’s cutting-edge tech and built to keep data close, legal, and secure. For a region that’s often lagging behind its western neighbours in high-performance computing, this isn’t just an upgrade — it’s a leapfrog.
Let’s break this down: Europe is in the middle of a balancing act. On one hand, there’s an urgent push to stay competitive in AI. On the other hand, there’s serious concern about data sovereignty, especially when AI training often requires sensitive, large-scale data access. That’s why governments and companies are now demanding AI infrastructure that doesn’t send their data flying across borders into American hyperscalers’ hands. Enter Beyond.pl.
Located in Poznan, Poland, Beyond.pl has deployed Nvidia DGX SuperPODs with the latest Blackwell GPUs and DGX B200 systems, all wired up with Nvidia’s Quantum-2 InfiniBand and Spectrum Ethernet. Translation? Ultra-fast, local AI compute with enough muscle to train massive models — and it’s all staying on European soil.
To support this beast, Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//S500 handles lightning-speed storage across workloads, and with Nvidia certification in the bag, it’s ready for action.
CEO Wojciech Stramski puts it plainly: “We’re not just hosting servers — we’re building the tools for innovation, data control, and global scale.” Beyond.pl says it can support up to 140kW per rack in AI-accelerated setups — that’s dense, hot, power-hungry stuff. But they’re keeping it green, too: the facility runs on 100% renewable energy, boasts an impressive 1.2 PUE, and even has a heat recovery project in partnership with Veolia Energia Poznan — the first of its kind in Poland.
Nvidia is backing the initiative fully. Carlo Ruiz, VP at Nvidia, called it a “transformative AI supercomputing” move that sets the stage for “manufacturing intelligence at unprecedented scale.” He’s not exaggerating — AI factories are shaping up to be the data centres of tomorrow, and Central Europe just got its first one.
This move isn’t just about Poland. It signals that the next wave of AI infrastructure isn’t going to be all West Coast or Western Europe. Sovereign AI is going local — and fast.
