Data 2026-07

Sovereign AI

Announced commitments against government budgets and reported disbursements, by country.

Sovereign programme record · Netherlands · 2025–2027

Netherlands: Dutch AI Factory (AIFNL) + Snellius/EuroHPC: $218M announced · disbursement not on record

Every figure below derives from the same record the dashboard reads — this page is the programme as a citable object: the reconciliation with its denominator stated, the decomposition with its residual, and the dated evidence behind each claim.

Announced~$218M
Government-only floor$142M
Committed~$218M
Disbursed—
No disbursement figure on record.

The reconciliation. Four figures on one dollar scale, each bar a share of the largest. The reality ratio above divides disbursed by the government-only floor ($142M), and the field it divides by is stated so the division is reproducible. A hatched track is an absent figure carried with its reason — a government that does not publish disbursement is a finding, not a zero. Tildes mark estimated figures.

Pipeline stage: Deployed (primary-verified evidence) — 640 accelerators tracked. The stage is a Scrutica derivation (tier 4), computed from the figures above, never asserted by the source.

Hardware on record

Model	Count	Status	Owner
NVIDIA A100	288	operational	SURF Snellius (government/academic)
NVIDIA H100 SXM5	352	operational	SURF Snellius Phase 3 (government/academic)

Empanelled partners · 6

Partner	GPUs	Model	Stage	Award
Stichting Nederlandse AIfabriek	—	—	awarded	Primary source · 2025-10-10
SURF	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2025-10-10
TNO	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2025-10-10
AIC4NL	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2025-10-10
Samenwerking Noord	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2025-10-10
NVIDIA	—	—	announced	Press or analyst · 2025-01-09

External dependence

NVIDIA hardware: high · TSMC fabrication: high · US technology: medium · BIS jurisdiction reach: low. Dependence levels are Scrutica classifications (tier 4) from the programme’s own disclosures — which hardware it buys, where it fabricates, and whose export jurisdiction its supply chain crosses.

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

EUR 200M total (national + regional + EuroHPC). Groningen site. Operational target 2027. Existing Snellius approaching end of life. ASML is Dutch but no domestic chip fab.

What this record flags about itself · 6

EuroHPC selection confirmed
Procurement tender not yet awarded
Full deployment is 2027, not 2025/2026
Snellius approaching end of life; AI factory timeline creates a gap
Dutch scientists warned (Dec 2025) about aging supercomputers
Verified: Snellius has 640 GPUs in total — 288 A100 across 72 nodes at four apiece, and 352 H100 SXM5 across 88 nodes at four apiece from the Phase 3 expansion — per the SURF service desk wiki at authority tier 1.

The evidence trail

6 cited sources

Dutch AI Factory (SURF official) — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-07
Snellius GPU hardware specifications (SURF) — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-08
SURF strategy rationale — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
Netherlands bid coverage — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-03-28
Dutch science community warning on compute gap — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-03-28
EuroHPC selection announcement — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28

Machine surfacesThis record is one object under one id: the evidence-trail feed and the derivation-chain export serialize the same programme this page renders.