In the latest European “sovereign-watch”, Beyond.pl follows Play and Scaleway completing an AI hall in its flagship campus
Polish data centre operator and cloud company Beyond.pl has unveiled a sovereign AI Factory at its 100MW data center campus in Poznan. The company claims to be one of the first in the central eastern European (CEE) market to commercially deploy and provide a platform offering support for the full scope AI development suite including AIaaS, GPU as a Service (GPUaaS), Nvidia AI Enterprise software, data centre, infrastructure and managed services.
Last October the operator announced plans to grow its Poznan campus by 150MW of IT capacity. It said at the time the new capacity will support high-density and AI workloads of up to 132kW per rack – enough heat to partner up with Veolia Energia Poznan and warm the presumably grateful citizens and businesses of the city.
The operator was keen to tag the operations sovereign – as a locally owned company they are right – and follows soon after Play and Iliad’s Scaleway announced plans to give Poland sovereign cloud in response to geopolitical…upheavals.
Pure partner
To deliver the AI factory, Beyond.pl and Pure Storage entered into a definitive agreement to provide access to “sovereign next-generation infrastructure and software services” to facilitate AI deployments in collaboration with the world’s least surprising AI partner, Nvidia. Deployed with DGX SuperPOD and connected with Nvidia’s Spectrum Ethernet networking, Pure Storage FlashBlade allows for processing multiple data streams simultaneously, reducing the time spent waiting for data to load, and accelerating the entire model training process and inference workloads
Beyond.pl’s PaaS offer – described as the first step into sovereign AI Beyond.pl’s newest offering is based on Nvidia DGX SuperPOD, AI supercomputing infrastructure and software. Utilising the Nvidia Blackwell GPU architecture, Nvidia DGX B200, interconnected and scaled with Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, the facility can handle diverse workloads.
The operator said it is the first offering on the CEE market based on Nvidia DGX SuperPOD with DGX B200 systems and Pure Storage FlashBlade, the “consolidated scale-out file and object storage platform”. It added that companies can submit orders already and to help move things along, it is also offering access to Nvidia AI Enterprise – a cloud-native software platform that streamlines development and deployment of AI based solutions.
“We are investing in cutting-edge infrastructure and software that provides gigantic computing power so that businesses driving innovation in Poland and the CEE region can do so while ensuring control over data and the IP that they create with the ability to competitively scale their innovations globally, without any constraints,” said Beyond.pl CEO Wojciech Stramski. “The introduction of the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, the world’s most modern AI supercomputer, to Beyond.pl eliminates the critical problem of lack of access to sovereign high-performance computing power to further the democratisation of access to AI.”
“Our partnership provides organisations with access to solutions which will enhance AI projects through validated designs to support customer’s complex needs. Pure Storage’s enterprise capabilities, experience in scaling AI solutions for customers, and seamless SuperPOD integration with FlashBlade means we’re well positioned to support Beyond.pl’s AI Factory,” said Omar Akar, RVP, METCA region at Pure Storage.
Service specs
The service enables companies to align their AI infrastructure investments with actual computing needs, avoiding the need to build and operate their own data centres. The offering includes GPUs and Nvidia AI Enterprise software, hosted in compliance with EU regulations such as the AI Act, GDPR, and NIS2. Customers retain full control over their data.
The company is prepared to host high-density AI workloads, offering up to 140kW per rack, supported by 100MW of committed power and access to renewable energy. As Nvidia VP enterprise solutions Carlo Ruiz noted, the partnership aims to bring high-performance, sovereign AI computing capabilities to the region. “The Beyond.pl NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD brings transformative AI supercomputing to Central Eastern Europe, empowering innovators with sovereign, high-performance infrastructure to accelerate breakthroughs and fuel the region’s global AI ambitions.”
