HPE and NVIDIA expand partnership to launch AI Factory Lab in Grenoble, France, addressing EU customers' needs for more control and autonomy over their AI infrastructure and data
BARCELONA – December 1, 2025 – HPE Discover Barcelona 2025 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced an expansion of the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio, introducing new solutions for secure and scalable AI factories, new AI datacenter interconnect to optimize AI workload performance across clusters operating over long distances or within multiple clouds, and the first AI factory lab in the European Union (EU) for customers worldwide to test and validate their sovereign AI factories.
"HPE and NVIDIA continue to provide the foundation for secure AI factories at any scale, with new innovations that deliver a greater range of performance for more diverse workloads than ever before," said Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE. "Together, HPE and NVIDIA are showcasing our unique strengths to deliver true full-stack AI infrastructures that provide enterprises with a greater range of performance for more diverse workloads."
"Every nation and enterprise needs to own the production of its intelligence," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "We're transforming the data center into an AI factory — a manufacturing plant for the new industrial revolution — and by deploying the full stack of NVIDIA accelerated computing and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking with HPE, we're creating the template for sovereign AI. The new AI Factory Lab provides a foundry where customers can turn data into value, securely and at scale."
HPE addresses customers' needs for more control and autonomy over their AI infrastructure and data
HPE and NVIDIA are launching a new AI Factory Lab in Grenoble, France where customers can test and refine workloads on a sovereign, air-cooled AI factory environment. The lab is equipped with the latest NVIDIA AI Enterprise government-ready software, HPE servers, HPE Juniper Networking PTX and MX Series routers, NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, and HPE Alletra storage. This new lab environment will also allow customers to validate performance on infrastructure located and running in the EU, designed to support scaled AI for the region, helping address data sovereignty and regulatory compliance needs of global enterprises operating within the EU. HPE is also partnering with Carbon3.ai to launch a Private AI Lab in Manchester, UK designed to accelerate UK enterprise AI adoption and built on HPE Private Cloud AI, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite and powered by NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
Expanded HPE Private Cloud AI capabilities to address data and operational sovereignty
As European markets are increasingly prioritizing data and operational sovereignty to more easily adopt AI with a secure, private infrastructure, HPE Private Cloud AI has introduced new configurations, use cases, and capabilities, including:
- NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on HPE Private Cloud AI, along with NVIDIA Hopper, give customers a choice of GPUs and provide greater flexibility across multiple workloads
- The integration of STIG-hardened and FIPS-enabled NVIDIA AI Enterprise in air-gapped environments offers an added layer of security, enabling a solution capable of satisfying numerous compliance standards
- HPE Private Cloud now supports GPU fractionalization to optimize utilization and lower costs, using NVIDIA Multi-instance GPU (MIG) technology
- New Datacenter Ops Agents provided by World Wide Technology (WWT), NVIDIA, and HPE simplify AI data center management and strengthen HPE's unified operations across agentic AI and hybrid cloud environments