Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an ambitious plan to multiply Europe’s AI computing capacity tenfold over the next two years by constructing 20 new “AI factories” in partnership with local tech and telecom companies. Speaking at VivaTech 2025 and the Nvidia GTC developer conference in Paris, Huang emphasized the urgency for Europe to build out its sovereign AI infrastructure and underscored the region’s growing influence in both artificial intelligence and quantum computing.