The Tricity Academic Computer Network IT Center, a department of Gdańsk University of Technology, has submitted a bid to host the Gaia AI Factory.. An AI supercomputer, the facility would be equipped with a minimum of 25,000 AI accelerators and constitute one of the largest technology investments on the European continent..
DCD has approached the Tricity Academic Computer Network IT Center for comment.. – Gdańsk University of Technology. The Gaia AI Factory is part of a wider attempt by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to accelerate the development of AI infrastructure across the European continent..
A public-private partnership, the scheme calls for seven so-called ‘gigafactories’ to support AI research and services in the EU.. Poland’s investment pledge for the program is one of Europe’s highest, at PLN 400 million ($105m). This commitment, said the country’s deputy minister of digital affairs, Dariusz Standerski, would help create “the largest computing center in our history.
Now it’s time to engage Polish companies, which will be able to participate in the construction tender.”. Founded in 1996, the Tricity Academic Computer Network IT Center in Gdańsk is an established supercomputing hub conducting research into distributed service orchestration and containerization services, among others.
The institution is already a participant in the Gaia AI Factory consortium, which also includes the PIAST AI Factory at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PCSS) in western Poland and the LUMI AI Factory in Finland. In 2022, the Tri-City Academic Computer Network IT Center also hosted the STOS Competence Center project, billed at the time as one of Europe’s fastest supercomputers..
The data center market in the Gdańsk area is small, with six operational facilities listed by DataCenterMap. This will soon be joined by a huge new facility north of the city in the town of Choczewo. Developed by WBS Power, the Baltic Data Center Campus is a 3.2GW project and will be the largest data center in Eastern Europe..
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 HPC & Quantum. 02 Apr 2026.
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