US technology firm DriverAI has announced plans to build an 80MW quantum AI data center in the county of Cluj, Romania.. The facility will be built in an industrial park developed by Leviatan Group outside the village of Luna.. Cluj Romania – Getty Images. Construction on the 20-hectare (49-acre) site will proceed in four 20MW phases, said DriverAI, with the building ultimately hosting both GPUs and quantum computing hardware.. Though no details were released about the latter, or the ultimate cost of the project, a statement by Romania’s senate president Mircea Abrudean on Facebook said that $1 billion would be invested in its first stage. DCD has approached the firm for comment.. “Our assessment visits to Luna and to the industrial and technological park developed by Leviatan Group confirmed what the data already suggested: Romania is uniquely positioned to become a sovereign compute hub for central and eastern Europe,” said DriverAI’s CEO, Cary Tatlinger. “The proximity to leading universities, the energy infrastructure, and the commitment of our Romanian partners make this the right location, at the right moment. We are committed to advancing this initiative as a priority.”. Power supply and project management expertise for the facility’s construction phase is being provided by infrastructure company E-INFRA and Cartens Consulting Global, respectively.. DriverAI said that it plans for the data center to be fully powered by renewable energy by the fourth phase of its construction. Once finished, students from the nearby Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and Babeș-Bolyai University will be given access to the data center’s GPU and quantum computing resources.. According to its website, DriverAI is an Arizona-based company specializing in building AI-enabled situational awareness systems and developing hyperscale data center capacity.. Its new facility in Romania, said the company, would position the country “as a competitive node in the European sovereign compute landscape.” However, DriverAI’s announcement was criticized by software entrepreneur and Cluj native George Roth, who appeared concerned that the firm does not appear to have been involved in any data center development projects until now.. “The bigger the promise, the more important the verification,” Roth told Ziarul Financiar. “Romania should welcome serious investors… but it should not accept strategic technology announcements at their stated value.”. Currently, the data center market in Cluj County is small, with DataCenterMap listing eight operational facilities in the area. Last month, plans were also announced for a municipal data center in the city of Cluj-Napoca, though no details were released about its predicted compute power.. Learn more about the data center market in Poland and Eastern Europe, and meet with other executives and experts from the region at the DCN Warsaw event later this year.. More in Construction & Site Selection. 29 May 2026. More in HPC & Quantum. 17 Apr 2026. 26 Jan 2026
