Most AI factory announcements have been in North America, but Europe is beginning to get in on the act.
Case in point: Polish MSP Beyond.pl has launched a sovereign AI factory at its 100 MW Data Center Campus in Poznan, Poland. The company plans to provide a comprehensive platform offering support for the full scope of the AI development suite, including AI-as-a-Service, GPU-as-a-Service, NVIDIA AI enterprise software, and managed AI services. The company is partnering with NVIDIA and Pure Storage in the creation of this AI factory.
“Adopting AI for business transformation and to build competitive advantage requires fast access to large-scale, state-of-the-art computing power on demand,” said Wojciech Stramski, chief executive officer of Beyond.pl, during Pure Storage’s Pure//Accelerate 2025 conference in Las Vegas.
Beyond.pl doesn’t just want to open an AI data center — it intends to dominate the provision of AI data center services in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The company believes it can win against hyperscalers in the region due to its ability to address thorny issues like EU data privacy and data sovereignty regulations.
“EU is a complex market with a difficult regulatory environment around AI and data privacy,” said Stramski. “We are investing in infrastructure and computing power so that businesses in Poland and CEE can maintain control over the data and the intellectual property (IP) they create while competitively scaling globally without constraints.”
Sovereign AI factory
Beyond.pl is no newcomer to IT services. It has almost 20 years of experience in colocation and managed services, such as managed OS, managed cloud, managed network, and managed Kubernetes. The company is owned by Kulczyk Investments, a private, international investment house.
The first phase of Beyond.pl’s AI factory is the offering of colocation services of up to 140 kW per rack for AI infrastructure on a campus that has up to 100 MW of committed power. The company already owns and operates a data center campus in Poznan, Poland, halfway between Berlin and Warsaw; thus, it can offer low-latency services to many European cities.
To further its privacy and data sovereignty ambitions, Beyond.pl has achieved the ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 4 certification and EN 50600 Class 4, the highest security and availability standards in Europe. Moreover, the facility has delivered 100% uptime since its commissioning in 2016. And, it scored a power usage effectiveness rate of 1.2, placing it among the best in Europe.
Stramski added that the AI factory is not going to be a place where companies deploy small-scale proof-of-concept (POC) models in a sandbox. This collection of supercomputing infrastructure and software is in demand from tech pioneers and businesses in the region who are building, testing, and scaling AI models and innovations for training and inference purposes. Already, he has lined up companies in healthcare, finance, insurance, and manufacturing across many countries with specific AI use cases they wish to execute rapidly.
He gave one example in the healthcare sector. The company builds a model each month, consisting of PBs of data. It then uses it for inferencing, stores everything, and then uses it all to redevelop and retrain a new model.
“We analyzed the market, spoke to our customers, and know that business is assured for an AI factory that effectively handles sovereignty and privacy,” said Stramski. “The hyperscalers operating in CEE don’t necessarily address these concerns.”
NVIDIA SuperPOD services for AI supercomputing
Beyond.pl’s first AI offering for this market is based on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, which is said to be the world’s most modern AI supercomputer. It leverages the Blackwell GPU architecture, NVIDIA DGX B200, and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. This first SuperPOD will be joined by several others in the coming months.
In addition, the company offers its customers access to NVIDIA AI Enterprise, a cloud-native software platform that streamlines the development and deployment of AI-based solutions. One part of NVIDIA AI Enterprises is NVIDIA NIM, a set of easy-to-use microservices that optimize model performance with security, support, and stability. This assists in the transition from prototype to production, as it includes ready-to-use tools, libraries, and frameworks to speed AI deployments and achieve faster insights.
Stramski said the compute layer is underpinned by Pure Storage FlashBlade//S, a consolidated scale-out file and object storage platform designed to deliver high multi-dimensional performance. These flash storage systems are certified for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. They can process multiple data streams simultaneously, thereby reducing the time AI workloads have to spend waiting for data to load and accelerating large language model (LLM) training and inferencing.
“Pure Storage’s enterprise capabilities, experience in scaling AI solutions for customers, and SuperPOD integration with FlashBlade means we’re well positioned to support Beyond.pl’s AI factory,” said Stramski.
