Business and economy·October 3, 2026, 23:29

Mistral opens hub in Munich and aims for 1 GW of computing power

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The French AI company Mistral is opening a new hub in Munich focused on industrial AI. It is tied to the company's goal of 1 gigawatt of European computing power by 2030.

Mistral AI has announced that the company is opening a new hub in Munich, Germany. The announcement came on September 28, 2026.

The hub will house research teams in what Mistral calls Physics AI and Industrial AI. This is AI used to understand and simulate physical things such as collisions, flow and energy installations. In addition to the researchers, there will be engineers working directly with business customers.

The customers are already on board

In Munich, according to the sources, Mistral is already working with BMW on crash simulations and engineering AI. With Siemens Energy, it is working on industrial AI.

In May 2026, Mistral acquired the company Emmi AI. That brought in more than 30 physicists, researchers and engineers. Emmi AI has specialized in AI models of, among other things, the flow of liquids and gases, mechanical loads on structures and other complex physical simulations. It is this team that forms the core of the new initiative.

The 1 GW promise

The hub is part of a bigger plan. Mistral wants 200 megawatts of its own infrastructure in Europe by the end of 2027 and 1 gigawatt by 2030. A gigawatt is a million kilowatts, roughly the power consumption of a large city, and here it is a measure of how large an AI computing park can be run.

The plan includes a 44 MW facility near Paris, a 23 MW Swedish facility developed together with EcoDataCenter and a 10 MW facility in Les Ulis, France. Mistral has also gathered a group of European companies that have committed to buying computing power over several years. According to one source, a new AI data center from NTT-DATA in Munich will contribute toward 2030.

Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch has previously estimated that one gigawatt of computing power corresponds to an investment of around 50 billion dollars.

What does it mean?

For ordinary users, the point is that Europe is getting more AI services that run on European servers and not only on American ones. Mistral calls it AI sovereignty. For European industrial companies, it can provide an alternative to US vendors when they want to use AI in design and production.