Hypertec, a Canadian leader in sustainable AI infrastructure, has partnered with 5C Group and Together AI to expand into Europe, marking their first joint AI factory deployment outside North America. Announced on June 12, 2025, this strategic alliance aims to deliver up to 2 gigawatts of data center capacity and 100,000 GPUs, driving $5 billion in private investments to meet Europe’s demand for sovereign AI infrastructure.
Hypertec, 5C, and Together AI form a strategic AI alliance in Europe.
Plans include 2GW data centers and 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by 2028.
Targets France, UK, Italy, and Portugal for initial deployments.
Supports frontier model training and open-source AI innovation.
Ensures compliance with European regulatory and sustainability needs.
Drives $5 billion in private investments for AI infrastructure.
The alliance combines Hypertec’s sustainable AI servers, 5C’s expertise in high-performance data center construction, and Together AI’s advanced cloud platform to create a vertically integrated AI ecosystem. Initial rollouts begin in late 2025, with large-scale buildouts planned through 2028. Priority markets include France, the UK, Italy, and Portugal, addressing Europe’s growing compute gap with high-density compute and AI-native cloud services.
Simon Ahdoot, CEO of Hypertec, emphasized the initiative’s significance: "Europe is at a pivotal moment in taking its place in the future of AI. Together with our strategic partners 5C and Together AI, we are investing in building one of the most sustainable and high-performance AI infrastructure platforms on the continent. This effort reflects our commitment to global AI leadership and our confidence in Europe's talent and innovation ecosystem." The partnership aims to deliver scalable infrastructure tailored to European regulatory and sustainability standards.
The collaboration enables a full AI stack, supporting frontier model training, inference workloads, and open-source generative AI innovation. Jonathan Ahdoot, CEO of 5C Group, stated: "Over the past 18 months, 5C has built and retrofitted multiple North American data centers as well as deployed several large-scale, high-performance AI clusters to meet the demands of the world's leading AI users. With Together AI and Hypertec, we are bringing this capability to Europe — tailored for local needs, digital sovereignty, and world-class sustainability." The deployment includes 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell and future-generation GPUs.
Together AI’s CEO, Vipul Ved Prakash, highlighted the platform’s role: "By bringing our high-performance AI Cloud and the powerful developer platform for model inference and fine-tuning to Europe, we're enabling enterprises and researchers to harness open-source and custom frontier models with full control over performance, compliance, and cost." The initiative supports over 200 open-source models, including DeepSeek and Llama LLMs, ensuring compliance and cost efficiency for European clients.
The Hypertec, 5C, and Together AI alliance positions Europe as a leader in AI innovation. By delivering sustainable, regulation-ready infrastructure, the partnership supports enterprises, research institutions, and AI-native companies, fostering digital sovereignty and economic growth.
Founded in 1984, Hypertec's mission is to bring expertise, innovation, and strong partnerships to transform challenges into opportunities for sustainable growth through technology solutions. Trusted by industry leaders across AI, financial services, healthcare, public sectors and others, we serve clients in over 80 countries and empower them to push boundaries and lead their industries through transformative technology.
5C Group is a next-generation AI Digital Infrastructure provider established from the acquisition of 5C Data Centers by Hypertec Cloud. With over 2 gigawatts (GW) of roadmap capacity and the ability to power hundreds of thousands of GPUs, 5C Group delivers secure, reliable, and sustainable data center and AI infrastructure solutions at scale to the largest and most demanding AI users.
Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence infrastructure company that contributes leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI. Its AI Acceleration Cloud empowers developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models. Together AI believes that open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society.
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