- Bpifrance, Mistral and MGX deepen their partnership to scale Campus AI nationwide
- Imminent selection of a second site, doubling the initial investment by the consortium and its partners
- Priority access to compute capacity for Mistral, and broader support for France’s industrial value chain, R&D and start-ups
Paris, June 1st, 2026 — Bpifrance, Mistral and MGX today announced the planned expansion of Campus AI in France, with a goal of developing up to 3 GW of compute capacity nationwide. Campus AI’s imminent selection of a second site doubles the initial investment by the consortium and its partners and is the natural next step in the development of a leading pan-European network of AI factories, extending the program beyond the flagship Fouju campus in Seine-et-Marne.
Campus AI is a joint venture between Bpifrance, the French public investment bank; Mistral, the European pioneer in generative artificial intelligence; MGX, a global AI and advanced technology investment firm; and NVIDIA, the global leader in accelerated computing. The expansion reinforces France’s position as Europe’s primary destination for large-scale, decarbonized AI factories; and meets Europe’s accelerating demand for responsible and sustainable tokens.
As Campus AI scales nationwide, it will continue to support the growth of Mistral, its shareholder and anchor French AI champion, by providing access to compute capacity at scale across sites.
The announcement was made at the Choose France Summit and witnessed by Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic and His Excellency Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi and Secretary General of the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council, underscoring the strategic importance of Campus AI for both France and the United Arab Emirates.
The expansion will create thousands of jobs across France and is being developed in close partnership with French industrial champions in power, batteries, semiconductors, electronics and other critical technologies. By bringing together the full French industrial value chain, Campus AI aims to contribute positively to France’s technological sovereignty and accelerate the emergence of a competitive European AI ecosystem.
This expansion follows rapid progress at the original Fouju campus, where local elected officials and community leaders have worked alongside Campus AI to bring jobs and investment to the Seine-et-Marne territory. Designed to the highest standards of environmental performance and powered by France’s highly decarbonized electricity grid, the campus model combines water-free cooling with an energy-efficient design to scale AI capacity sustainably.
The selection of a second site will follow the same approach: close coordination with local authorities, high environmental standards, and an industrial model designed to enable European AI champions while reinforcing France’s position at the centre of a sustainable AI future for Europe.
Thibaud Desfossés, President of Campus AI, said: “France has the power, the talent and the research base to lead Europe in AI. The question now is what France does with each gigawatt it builds. Scaling Campus AI toward 3 GW is how we answer it: an open platform, built with our French industrial and territorial partners, that pulls French suppliers further up the value chain and gives French AI champions the scale they could not otherwise reach. This is the partnership France and the UAE set out to build, and the test we hold ourselves to is simple: every gigawatt should compound value in France, not simply flow through it.”
About Campus AI
Campus AI is dedicated to the design, financing, and delivery of large-scale digital infrastructure to support the development of artificial intelligence in France and Europe. Its shareholder base brings together four major players in the technology and industrial ecosystem: MGX, a global AI and advanced technology investment company; Bpifrance, the French public investment bank; Mistral AI, a French pioneer in generative artificial intelligence; and NVIDIA, the global leader in accelerated computing. Announced at the Choose France Summit in May 2025, Campus AI will provide France and Europe with next-generation computing infrastructure that meets the most demanding standards for performance and energy efficiency. Built as open campuses, Campus AI is designed to draw French and European industry further up the value chain and give French AI champions access to scale they could not otherwise reach, contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty while creating jobs and economic opportunity in the regions that host it.
About MGX
MGX is a technology investment company focused on accelerating the development and adoption of AI and advanced technologies through world-leading partnerships in the United Arab Emirates and globally. MGX invests in sectors where AI can deliver value and economic impact at scale, including semiconductors, infrastructure, software, tech-enabled services, life sciences, and automation. For more information, visit www.mgx.ae.
About Bpifrance
Bpifrance is the French national investment bank: it finances businesses – at every stage of their development – through loans, guarantees, equity investments and export insurances. Bpifrance also provides extra financial services (training, consultancy) to help entrepreneurs meet their challenges (innovation, export…).
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