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Sovereign AI Programmes

Netherlands sovereign AI programme

The Netherlands had two systems of 352 and 288 accelerators in operation.

Dutch AI Factory (AIFNL), 2025–2027; the record also covers Snellius/EuroHPC

Systems

Two hardware records.

The programme’s systems
In operationSURFH100Snellius
In operationSURFA100Snellius

Funding

Amounts cover different activities and periods, so they are not added.

Spent

Dec 2025: 12 of 72 months

spent12 points below an even pace

€5.6 million of €128 million

€5.6 million spent by December 2025, 12 months after the 2025 budget year began, of the €128 million national contribution budgeted for the AI factory over 2025-2030.

Sovereign AI Funding

Money on record

Its sources give a headline amount of , also recorded as and government funding of .

Chips and rules

Accelerators
NVIDIA’s accelerators are in both of its systems.Chip makers’ product pages
Fabrication
fabricates the Hopper parts that one of its systems names.Chip makers’ product pages
US export rules
The Netherlands is in , outside the groups where exporting advanced AI chips needs a licence from the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, 29 Oct 2026
Scrutica’s rating
Scrutica rates the programme’s dependence on NVIDIA hardware high, and on US technology medium, on a scale of none, low, medium and high.A qualitative assessment of the programme’s chips, partners and supplier relationships, as none, low, medium or high

Sites

1

Sites on record in the programme’s country, or owned by its own body. A site’s count is its whole machine; a system above can be an addition to it.

Sites on record
Owner
Snellius (SURF National Supercomputer)Amsterdam, NetherlandsOperational640SURF

Partners

7

5 partners by procurement stage, besides the operators in Systems, and 2 more named in the programme’s sources.

Announced, 1
Named in sources
AIFNL Foundation, EuroHPC JU

Related pages

Sources

8 sources
SourceDate
Dutch AI Factory (SURF official)7 Apr 2026
Snellius GPU hardware specifications (SURF)8 Apr 2026
SURF strategy rationale28 Mar 2026
EuroHPC selection announcement28 Mar 2026
EuroHPC: NLAIF hardware procurement and ownership, March 20268 Sep 2026
AIC4NL: access to European computing time before the Dutch system opens, April 20268 Sep 2026
Netherlands bid coverage28 Mar 2026
Dutch science community warning on compute gap28 Mar 2026
Data

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Evidence trail (RSS)

Derivation chain (JSON)

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CSV

JSON with provenance

How the figures were made

Operating compute / delivered hardware. Reported operational or delivered: 288 NVIDIA A100 (physical hardware); 352 NVIDIA H100 SXM5 (physical hardware). The stage is assigned from reported hardware status, disbursements and commitments.

Announced in EUR, converted at 1.1613 on 10 October 2025 (Federal Reserve H.10).

The Dutch AI Factory will provide computing and technical support for AI research and development in Groningen. Its €200M budget combines €70M from EuroHPC, €70M from the national government and €60M from Groningen/North Drenthe. The expertise centre was scheduled to begin in 2026 and the supercomputer to reach full capacity in 2027. Dutch users can apply for time on other EuroHPC systems while it is built. SURF also operates the existing Snellius system, whose GPU partitions contain 288 A100 and 352 H100 accelerators.

Caveats on this record, 3

  • The NLAIF hardware tender opened on 11 March 2026 and closed on 30 April. It names EuroHPC as owner and Stichting NLAIF as the hosting consortium. The 2027 availability date is a target in the funding announcement.
  • Snellius’s 640 GPUs come from SURF’s hardware inventory: 72 nodes with four A100s each and 88 nodes with four H100s each. These are installed Snellius accelerators; the planned Groningen machine has a separate procurement.
  • The dollar figures convert the €200M project budget and the €130M Dutch public contribution at US$1.1613 per euro on 10 October 2025, SURF’s announcement date, from the Federal Reserve’s H.10 series distributed by FRED.
Identifiers
Scrutica ID
sovereign-nl
Country code
NL
Name in the record
Netherlands: Dutch AI Factory (AIFNL) + Snellius/EuroHPC