Sweden sovereign AI programme

Sweden had two systems of 752 and 128 accelerators in operation.

Berzelius, 2024–2026; the record also covers MIMER AI Factory (EuroHPC)

Accelerators752 and 128 operating

A full bar is 300,000 accelerators. Each system in operation is a segment of its own, and no total is printed, since two records can describe one machine.

Systems

Two from the programme’s hardware records and one from its partners’ allocations; the pale row is under way.

The programme’s systems

Under way	NAISS	400	GB200
In operation	Linköping University	752	A100
In operation	Linköping University	128	H200

Funding

The government’s budget documents state an allocation of 80 million SEK, 2026.

Chips and rules

Accelerators: NVIDIA’s accelerators are in all three of its systems.Chip makers’ product pages
Fabrication: TSMC fabricates the Hopper and Blackwell parts that two of its systems name.Chip makers’ product pages
US export rules: Sweden is in Country Group A:5, 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 and on US technology high, 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

Sites on record in the programme’s country, or owned by its own body.

Sites on record
				Owner
Arrhenius (EuroHPC)	Linköping, Sweden	Under construction		EuroHPC JU

Partners

2 partners by procurement stage, besides the operators in Systems, and 6 more named in the programme’s sources.

Awarded, 1: Bull (Eviden)
Selected, 1: Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)
Named in sources: Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Linköping University, Eviden, AI Sweden, EuroHPC JU, Swedish Research Council

Government spending

No paid figure stated in the government’s documents

The 2026 budget adds SEK 80 million a year to the Research Council's appropriation for 'a part' of Sweden's co-funding of the MIMER AI Factory, and Vinnova has granted RISE SEK 45 million, but no payment under either is published yet: the Research Council's 2025 accounts carry no AI-factory condition, NAISS's 2025 statement shows no Research Council AI-factory income, and the first outturn is due in the Research Council's 2026 annual report. Berzelius was paid for by the private Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Swedish Research Council appropriation 16 3:1 (Research and research information): co-funding of the Swedish AI factory at Linköping University

A part of the programme. The national half of MIMER's AI-optimised supercomputer (contract value about EUR 30 million, shared 50/50 between Sweden through the Swedish Research Council and EuroHPC through Digital Europe, per NAISS on 21 April 2026). The budget bill calls the SEK 80 million 'a part' of Sweden's co-funding; Vinnova's grant to RISE is the second line, and EuroHPC's half is in the EuroHPC row. Berzelius is excluded because it was donated by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (SEK 300 million, plus SEK 125 million for the 2024 upgrade), not funded by the state. The Riksdag votes appropriation 3:1 as a whole; the SEK 80 million is the bill's breakdown, so the kind is 'allocated'.

In a budget estimate: the 80 million SEK added for 2026 to the Research Council’s appropriation for Sweden’s AI-factory co-funding, January 2026 to December 2026. Printed as “80 000 000 kronor”. About $9M at the reference rate of 22 Sep 2025. Anslaget ökas med 80 000 000 kronor fr.o.m. 2026 för att finansiera en del av Sveriges medfinansiering i den svenska AI-fabriken vid Linköpings universitet. (The appropriation is increased by SEK 80,000,000 from 2026 to finance part of Sweden's co-funding of the Swedish AI factory at Linköping University.) Regeringen (tabled in the Riksdag), Budgetpropositionen för 2026, Utgiftsområde 16 Utbildning och universitetsforskning (prop. 2025/26:1), Appropriation 3:1 Vetenskapsrådet: Forskning och forskningsinformation, Tabell 6.6 'Förändringar av anslagsnivån 2026–2028', row '– Medfinansiering av den svenska AI-fabriken' (80 000, 80 000, 80 000 thousand kronor for 2026, 2027, 2028) and the paragraph below it (p. 238), 22 Sep 2025

Budget estimate: 80 million SEK, 22 Sep 2025. Printed as “80 000”. The bill's calculated ('beräknat') 2027 amount for the AI-factory co-funding; not yet voted. – Medfinansiering av den svenska AI-fabriken 80 000 80 000 80 000 (Co-funding of the Swedish AI factory: 80,000 / 80,000 / 80,000 (SEK thousand; 2026, 2027, 2028)) Regeringen (tabled in the Riksdag), Budgetpropositionen för 2026, Utgiftsområde 16 Utbildning och universitetsforskning (prop. 2025/26:1), Tabell 6.6, row '– Medfinansiering av den svenska AI-fabriken', column 2027 (p. 238), 22 Sep 2025

Budget estimate: 80 million SEK, 22 Sep 2025. Printed as “80 000”. The bill's calculated ('beräknat') 2028 amount for the AI-factory co-funding; not yet voted. – Medfinansiering av den svenska AI-fabriken 80 000 80 000 80 000 (Co-funding of the Swedish AI factory: 80,000 / 80,000 / 80,000 (SEK thousand; 2026, 2027, 2028)) Regeringen (tabled in the Riksdag), Budgetpropositionen för 2026, Utgiftsområde 16 Utbildning och universitetsforskning (prop. 2025/26:1), Tabell 6.6, row '– Medfinansiering av den svenska AI-fabriken', column 2028 (p. 238), 22 Sep 2025

Budget estimate: 180 million SEK, 31 May 2026. Printed as “180,000,000”. The implementing unit's own 2026 budget: NAISS (Linköping University) expects SEK 180,000,000 of 'Research Council AI Factory co-funding' in 2026, against nothing in its 2025 result. It is larger than the bill's SEK 80 million; where the rest comes from is unverified. The same statement budgets 'AIF hardware investment' at 159,216,000 for 2026. Research Council AI Factory co-funding 180,000,000 NAISS – National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (Linköping University), NAISS Annual Report 2025, Financial Statement, Financial Statement, INCOME, row 'Research Council AI Factory co-funding', column 'Budget 2026'; the 'Result 2025' cell is empty (p. 15), 31 May 2026

Vinnova grant 2025-04211 'The Swedish AI Factory' to RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (coordinator)

A part of the programme. The innovation agency's share of the national co-funding, for RISE's part of the AI factory (services, training, pilot projects). It is an agency grant award; the project database prints no decision date and no amount paid.

Approved by the government: Vinnova’s 45 million SEK grant to RISE for the Swedish AI Factory, April 2025 to March 2028. Printed as “SEK 45 000 000”. About $5M at the reference rate of 28 Aug 2026. Coordinator RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB - RISE Funding from Vinnova SEK 45 000 000 Project duration April 2025 - March 2028 Status Ongoing Vinnova (Sweden's innovation agency), The Swedish AI Factory (reference number 2025-04211), Vinnova project database, Project facts: 'Funding from Vinnova' and 'Project duration' (page last updated 28 August 2026)

Searched, 7 places

Riksdag open data (data.riksdagen.se): Prop. 2024/25:1 UO16 (HC031d17) and prop. 2025/26:1 UO16 (HD031d18); bet. 2025/26:FiU21 (spring amending budget 2026); bet. 2026/27:FiU12 (20 October 2026, computing-power commitments); document-list searches for 'AI-fabrik', 'EuroHPC', 'MIMER', 'beräkningskraft' and for prop. 2026/27:1. 2026 bill: +SEK 80 000 000 a year from 2026 to 3:1 for 'a part' of Sweden's AI-factory co-funding (calculated 80 000 tkr for 2027 and 2028). 2025 bill: authority for the 2025 EuroHPC membership fee of at most SEK 25 000 000, no AI factory. FiU21: no AI-factory change. FiU12: authority to commit up to EUR 50 million over five years to EuroHPC AI gigafactories (outside MIMER). No prop. 2026/27:1 listed yet. Riksdag open data (data.riksdagen.se), 2 Nov 2026

Swedish Research Council (vr.se): Vetenskapsrådets årsredovisning 2025 (adopted 18 February 2026), including the appropriation conditions table (pp. 122–123); VR news of 10 December 2024 on the AI factory. No MIMER or AI-factory condition, grant or payment in 2025. 2025 conditions 'Superdatorinfrastrukturen NAISS' (35 000 tkr spent) and 'Deltagande i EuroHPC' (7 000 tkr spent); 48 870 tkr paid to NAISS in 2025 for Arrhenius; SEK 250 million granted to Linköping University for Arrhenius co-funding 2025–2028. Swedish Research Council (vr.se), 2 Nov 2026

NAISS / Linköping University: NAISS Annual Report 2024 and 2025 (financial statements); steering-group minutes NAISS 2026-1, 2026-3 (24 March 2026, 2025 accounts approved) and 2026-4; NAISS news of 21 April 2026 (MIMER contract); LiU news of 10 December 2024. 2025 result: no Research Council AI-factory income; EuroHPC AIF Service Hub income 43,640,927 and AI Factory Service Hub personnel 1,398,681 (EU-funded). 2026 budget: Research Council AI Factory co-funding 180,000,000; AIF hardware investment 159,216,000. Contract about EUR 30 million, 50/50 Sweden (Research Council) and EuroHPC. NAISS / Linköping University, 2 Nov 2026

Vinnova project database: Project 2025-04211 'The Swedish AI Factory'. SEK 45 000 000 to RISE, April 2025 to March 2028; no payment figure. Vinnova project database, 2 Nov 2026

ESV (Ekonomistyrningsverket): statsliggaren regleringsbrev and statsbudgetens utfall: Regleringsbrev 2025 and 2026 for Vetenskapsrådet; monthly outturn for appropriation 16 3:1. Unreachable: HTTPS and HTTP timed out from this machine (curl, twice with 60 s limits) and WebFetch got a connection reset. ESV (Ekonomistyrningsverket): statsliggaren regleringsbrev and statsbudgetens utfall, 2 Nov 2026

Riksrevisionen site search: Searches for 'superdator' and 'AI-fabrik' across the audit office's reports (to November 2026). No results. Riksrevisionen site search, 2 Nov 2026

Berzelius funder and operator pages: Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation release of 11 June 2024; NSC Berzelius system page. Berzelius was donated by the private foundation (SEK 300 million, then SEK 125 million for the 2024 upgrade); no state budget line. Berzelius funder and operator pages, 2 Nov 2026

Still open

VR's 2026 regleringsbrev condition for the AI factory (amount and wording) could not be read because ESV was unreachable.

Whether VR has paid any of the 2026 SEK 80 million to NAISS or to the EuroHPC JU before 2 November 2026 is unpublished until VR's 2026 annual report (February 2027).

NAISS budgets SEK 180 000 000 of Research Council AI-factory co-funding for 2026 against the bill's SEK 80 000 000; the source of the difference is unverified.

Whether Sweden's programme also takes in Arrhenius (VR co-funding of SEK 250 million granted for 2025–2028, 48 870 tkr paid in 2025) or the October 2026 authority to commit up to EUR 50 million to EuroHPC AI gigafactories: neither is named in the programme record, so neither is a line here.

Open Sovereign AI funding

Sources

8 sources

Source	Date
NSC Berzelius specification: 94 A100 nodes, 16 H200 nodes and expansion dates	8 Sep 2026
Swedish Research Council: December 2024 MIMER selection and NAISS–RISE collaboration	8 Sep 2026
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation: June 2024 Berzelius upgrade donation	8 Sep 2026
NAISS: April 2026 MIMER supplier, GPU count, budget scope and planned installation	8 Sep 2026
Swedish government: September 2025 proposal for SEK479 million of AI and data reforms in 2026	8 Sep 2026
Ericsson: May 2025 industrial consortium and planned GB300 infrastructure	8 Sep 2026
Linköping University: MIMER hosting and support for AI users	8 Sep 2026
EuroHPC’s December 2024 selection of NAISS and RISE for MIMER	8 Sep 2026

NSC Berzelius specification: 94 A100 nodes, 16 H200 nodes and expansion dates: https://www.nsc.liu.se/systems/berzelius/
Swedish Research Council: December 2024 MIMER selection and NAISS–RISE collaboration: https://www.vr.se/english/just-now/news/news-archive/2024-12-10-sweden-is-establishing-an-ai-factory-with-the-support-of-eurohpc-ju.html
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation: June 2024 Berzelius upgrade donation: https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/press/supercomputer-berzelius-be-upgraded-double-capacity
NAISS: April 2026 MIMER supplier, GPU count, budget scope and planned installation: https://www.naiss.se/news/2026/04/bull-to-deliver-ai-optimised-supercomputer-for-mimer-ai-factory/
Swedish government: September 2025 proposal for SEK479 million of AI and data reforms in 2026: https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/09/stora-satsningar-pa-ai-och-data--starker-valfarden-och-svensk-konkurrenskraft/
Ericsson: May 2025 industrial consortium and planned GB300 infrastructure: https://www.ericsson.com/en/news/2025/5/ericsson-in-consortium-to-develop-swedish-ai-factory
Linköping University: MIMER hosting and support for AI users: https://liu.se/en/news-item/europeisk-ai-nod-med-ny-superdator-till-sverige
EuroHPC’s December 2024 selection of NAISS and RISE for MIMER: https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/selection-first-seven-ai-factories-drive-europes-leadership-ai-2024-12-10_en

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How the figures were made

Operating compute / delivered hardware. Reported operational or delivered: 752 NVIDIA A100 (physical hardware); 128 NVIDIA H200 (physical hardware). The stage is assigned from reported hardware status, disbursements and commitments.

Berzelius at Linköping University has 752 A100 GPUs and 128 H200 GPUs across 110 DGX nodes. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation funded the system and its expansions. MIMER’s April 2026 procurement selected Bull to supply a separate system with 400 GB200 GPUs, with installation planned later in 2026. Its approximately €30 million budget covers acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance; Sweden and EuroHPC each fund half.

Caveats on this record, 3

The Swedish government’s September 2025 budget proposal included SEK479 million for AI and data reforms in 2026. This broader package does not provide a dollar-denominated programme total.
The Berzelius inventory comprises 94 eight-A100 nodes and 16 eight-H200 nodes. Its operator dates the latest expansion to 2025.
Ericsson, AstraZeneca, SAAB, SEB and Wallenberg Investments announced a separate company-led AI Factory in May 2025, with two planned DGX SuperPODs using GB300 systems.

Identifiers

Scrutica ID: sovereign-se
Country code: SE
Name in the record: Sweden: Berzelius + MIMER AI Factory (EuroHPC)