RAISE Summit 2026: Cerebras Systems Accelerates European Expansion with 200MW of AI Compute Capacity by End of 2027

Cerebras Systems, maker of a fast AI infrastructure, announced a major expansion of its European infrastructure footprint.Cerebras will bring its first European data center capacity online by the end of 2026, with rapid build-out across France and the Nordics.

The company plans to expand total capacity to 200 MW by the end of 2027, with a portion of that capacity expected to support OpenAI workloads as part of the companies’ existing partnership. The expansion will bring Cerebras’ high-speed AI inference infrastructure closer to European users, helping deliver faster response times for increasingly complex AI workloads.

“We are contracting significant capacity for 2027, with data centers slated for Norway and Finland as we actively build across Europe,” said Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO, Cerebras. “These deployments will enable us to move decisively on what our customers have been asking for: fast, high-performance AI compute located in Europe.”

Frontier compute for Europe
As AI models support increasingly complex and interactive workloads, demand for local, low-latency AI infrastructure has surged across European enterprises, research institutions, and governments seeking alternatives to compute capacity concentrated in the US and Asia. Cerebras’ wafer-scale architecture is designed to deliver industry-leading inference and training performance, and the company’s European build-out positions it to serve this demand directly from within the region.

“Our customers don’t just want AI compute. They want it close to home, powered responsibly, and available fast,” added Feldman. “This expansion and capacity plan reflects our confidence in Europe as a long-term growth market for Cerebras.”

Cerebras at RAISE Summit
Cerebras co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman participated to RAISE Summit in Paris.