Scrutica
Supply Chain
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Power capacity, hardware inventory, upstream suppliers, and downstream customers for the row owned by ; any BIS Entity List exposure is walked through the canonical org graph rather than asserted at the facility row.
Capacity, ownership chain, and supply-chain position for Dutch AI Factory (AIFNL / NLAIF), including any export-control exposure that surfaces when the BIS Entity List touches a node above the facility in the chain.
As of 2026-07-18
Operator (or owner of record) per the Scrutica facility row.
Description
The Dutch EuroHPC AI Factory (JU designation 'NLAIF'), to be built in Groningen. Selected by the EuroHPC JU on 2025-10-10 in the third-cut-off round of the EUROHPC-2024-CEI-AI-02 call (six new AI Factories: Czechia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain). The AIFNL Foundation (Stichting Nederlandse AIfabriek) is the lead partner and hosting entity, with a consortium comprising SURF, Samenwerking Noord, TNO and AIC4NL (the Dutch AI Coalition). Total investment EUR 200 million: EUR 70 million EuroHPC JU funding, EUR 70 million Dutch national government, EUR 60 million from the Nij Begun funds (Groningen/North Drenthe). The AI Factory comprises an expertise centre, a data facility and an AI supercomputer; the expertise centre starts in 2026, with the supercomputer expected to be running at full capacity in 2027. Focus on AI applications involving highly sensitive data (health information, IP-protected datasets) and on healthcare, safety, and agriculture.
Timeline
Announced
Oct 10, 2025
Notes
STAGED — NOT YET INGESTED (Task #40 staging pass, 2026-07-18). PER-FIELD SOURCE ATTRIBUTION: the funding decomposition (EUR 70M EuroHPC + EUR 70M national government + EUR 60M Nij Begun = EUR 200M total), Groningen siting, 'The expertise centre will start in 2026, with the supercomputer expected to be running at full capacity in 2027,' and the consortium listing are stated on SURF's own news page at source_url (tier 1, consortium-member disclosure; page is UNDATED — it describes the October 2025 award and was fetched 2026-07-18). announced_date 2025-10-10 and the hosting-entity designation ('The AIFNL Foundation will be the lead partner and hosting entity together with a consortium comprising SURF, Samenwerking Noord, TNO and AIC4NL' — verbatim) are from the EuroHPC JU selection press release, https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-selects-six-additional-ai-factories-expand-europes-ai-capabilities-2025-10-10_en (tier 1, fetched 2026-07-18), which also states the six new factories are 'set to be deployed next year' (2026). ALL hardware fields null: no procurement contract announced on either primary as of 2026-07-18; the JU release describes 'a newly acquired AI-optimised supercomputer' prospectively. expected_operational_date null — 'fully operational by 2027' is year-precision (no-false-precision rule). owner_org_id null: system not yet procured and neither primary states an ownership structure; the EUR 200M funding split is documented here and must not be read as an ownership split. operator_org_id = org-aifnl-foundation per the JU 'hosting entity' designation (existing org row, country NL); SURF is a consortium member, not the hosting entity — the 2026-07-17 scope doc's shorthand listing 'SURF' as the operator is corrected here. City precision: 'in Groningen' per SURF; no street address or campus named — lat/lng null. [sovereign-staged-2026-07-18]
Other Facilities in NL
Chain terminates at a government entity (AI Factory NL Foundation); sovereign authority is the documented terminus.
Netherlands (NL)
Operates the EU dual-use framework plus discrete national export rules on advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment (DUV/EUV) introduced in 2023.
Regimes: Wassenaar Arrangement; EU Dual-Use Regulation 2021/821; Dutch national semiconductor-equipment rules
Established via: AI Factory NL Foundation
No flags found across the chain (BIS Entity List, designation-cascade closures, or compute-threshold reporting obligations) as of 2026-07-18. Cascade closures evaluated: 0.
No ownership-change events documented in the available data for any entity in this chain over the last 5 years. Events draw from a licensed corporate-ownership database’s deal records (M&A, buyout, divestiture, asset sale, JV formation); coverage is strongest for private US/EU transactions and partial for state-owned-enterprise restructurings or non-Western private deals. Subsequent ingestion runs may add events here.
No documented sovereign or state-linked LP investment touches any entity in this chain. The licensed fund/LP database’s LP-disclosure rate is partial; absence of evidence here is not evidence of absence.
The walk for Dutch AI Factory (AIFNL / NLAIF)starts at the operator org id (or owner org id when no operator is recorded) and climbs upward through the unified affiliate graph, normalized to trace child-to-parent relationships. At each hop, the highest-authority parent edge wins (priority ordering: SEC EDGAR / 10-K / LEI registry > licensed corporate-ownership database > licensed supply-chain database > BIS / Federal Register > licensed affiliate graph). Confidence and recency break ties.
The walk terminates on (a) a node with a public-filing-grade ancestor edge — a SEC filer, an LEI-registered listed entity, or a 10-K-disclosed parent — (b) a government entity, (c) a 10-hop limit, or (d) a detected cycle. When termination is not at a public filer or government, the panel labels the chain's end-state as opaque beyond that point. Opacity is reported, never implied.
Per-source confidence (licensed corporate-ownership database): HIGH for Parent / Subsidiary edges; MEDIUM for JV and AFFILIATE edges. Known limitations: (1) shell companies with undisclosed principals terminate the public-record walk; (2) recent transactions reach the panel after the database's weekly refresh; (3) cross-jurisdiction private holding structures may carry intermediate hops that are not in any ingested source. Each row carries an edge-level as of date so freshness is auditable per hop.
Two further caveats are inherent to how the walker and the underlying data compose. The walker selects a single highest-authority parent per hop, so JV or multi-parent ownership structures collapse to one displayed path; alternate parents exist in the ingested sources but are not surfaced on this card. And some licensed-database edges encode parent-of relations against entity-resolved stub IDs whose display name reflects a sub-entity (a business unit, an acquired-then-renamed line) rather than the canonical parent — when a chain reads structurally surprising, the per-row source citation is the authoritative reference, not the chain's narrative shape.
Computed at: 2026-07-18. Walk depth observed: 1 hop. Sources combined: Scrutica facility record + licensed corporate-ownership database + SEC CIK cross-reference + LEI registry + (where applicable) licensed supply-chain database + Federal Register designation closures. The licensed databases are held under subscription and not redistributed; per-hop labels name no vendor.
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