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Poland has joined the European Union’s plan to build artificial intelligence (AI) gigafactories with a view to hosting one of the bloc’s new computing centres. Deputy digital affairs minister Dariusz Standerski said Poland had completed a key legal step by joining the joint procurement process. The move enables Poland to bid for one of seven AI gigafactory projects planned under the EU programme, potentially attracting investment of more than 10 billion zloty (€2.3 billion) while giving businesses, researchers and public institutions access to advanced AI computing capacity.
🔴@DStanderski: Gigafabryka #AI da Europie suwerenność https://t.co/17vkHh1g5l — Rzeczpospolita (@rzeczpospolita) July 28, 2026 “On behalf of the Republic of Poland, I have signed the Joint Procurement Agreement, which means that Poland joins the AI gigafactory initiative,” Standerski told daily Rzeczpospolita. Under the proposed model, AI gigafactories will be designed, financed, built and operated by private consortia selected through a European tender organised by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). In the first procurement round, EuroHPC JU plans to select seven projects comprising four medium-scale facilities and three large-scale sites.
Poland is bidding for a medium-scale project, which would initially provide computing capacity equivalent to at least 25,000 AI accelerators before expanding to at least 75,000. “Poland and the EU will each buy 17% of the power, and the remaining two thirds will be made commercially available by a private consortium; Poland will commit to purchasing its own pool for five years,” Standerski said. Standerski also told the newspaper that companies’ interest in the project is “enormous”.
“This means that, from the very first day the gigafactory is operational, part of its computing cap…
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