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Sovereign programme record · Netherlands · 2025–2027

Netherlands: ~$232M announced · disbursement not on record

Netherlands: Dutch AI Factory (AIFNL) + Snellius/EuroHPC

  • Announced~$232M
  • Government funding~$151M
  • Committed~$232M
  • Disbursed—

    No disbursed dollar amount on record.

Funding stages share a dollar scale. A hatched track marks an absent figure and gives its reason. Tildes mark estimated figures.

Operating compute / delivered hardware. Reported operational or delivered: 288 NVIDIA A100 (physical hardware); 352 NVIDIA H100 SXM5 (physical hardware). Announced in EUR, converted at 1.1613 as of 2025-10-10 via the Federal Reserve's H.10 series on FRED (DEXUSEU, US dollars per euro).

Hardware on record

ModelCountStatusOrganisation / role
NVIDIA A100288OperationalSURF Snellius (government/academic)

Physical hardware: Snellius’ A100 partition: 72 nodes with four GPUs each. Primary source

NVIDIA H100 SXM5352OperationalSURF Snellius Phase 3 (government/academic)

Physical hardware: Snellius’ H100 partition: 88 nodes with four GPUs each. Primary source

Empanelled partners · 6

PartnerAcceleratorsModelStageSource
Stichting Nederlandse AIfabriek——AwardedPrimary source · 2025-10-10

Hosting consortium for the Dutch AI Factory, with SURF, TNO, AIC4NL and Samenwerking Noord.

  • Programme-level disclosure
SURF——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2025-10-10

Member of the Dutch AI Factory consortium and operator of Snellius.

  • Programme-level disclosure
TNO——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2025-10-10

Member of the Dutch AI Factory consortium.

  • Programme-level disclosure
AIC4NL——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2025-10-10

Member of the Dutch AI Factory consortium; supports organisations applying for AI computing time.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Samenwerking Noord——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2025-10-10

Member of the Dutch AI Factory consortium in the northern Netherlands.

  • Programme-level disclosure
NVIDIA——AnnouncedPress or analyst · 2025-01-09

Techzine reported a Dutch government agreement with NVIDIA in January 2025. The report gives no accelerator model or quantity; this entry records the pre-tender announcement.

  • Announcement before tender
  • Programme-level disclosure

External dependence

NVIDIA hardware: High · US technology: Medium. These are editorial assessments based on the programme’s procurement disclosures.

Named partners: AIFNL Foundation, SURF, TNO, EuroHPC JU, Samenwerking Noord.

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.

Data-quality 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.

The evidence trail

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