Mistral AI secures $830M debt financing for Paris-area data center with 13,800 NVIDIA GPUs
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Mistral AI, the French AI startup, has secured $830 million in debt financing to build its first data center in Bruyères-le-Châtel, near Paris. The facility will house 13,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs with 44 MW power capacity, set to begin operations in Q2 2026. The company aims to reach 200 MW of European AI compute capacity by 2027, marking a major expansion from startup to infrastructure player in the AI industry.
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· 3 pulledMistral AI, the French startup that has become Europe's most prominent answer to OpenAI, is putting serious money where its ambitions are.
The facility will house 13,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs and carry a total power capacity of 44 MW.
Operations are expected to begin in the second quarter of 2026.
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