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Poland Pledges 100 Million Euros for AI Gigafactory
Poland's Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers has adopted a resolution guaranteeing the country's participation in the EU's AI gigafactory initiative, pledging 100 million euros for the first phase of computing capacity procurement. It is the first concrete step after months of negotiations with Lithuania and other Baltic states.
The Polish government has taken its first formal step toward building its own artificial intelligence gigafactory. The Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers (Stały Komitet Rady Ministrów, the body that vets draft resolutions before they reach the full cabinet) adopted a resolution guaranteeing the country's participation in the EU initiative, and for the project's first phase, the procurement of computing capacity, the government has pledged 100 million euros.
The decision was announced by Deputy Digitalization Minister Dariusz Standerski at a conference devoted to AI gigafactories. The committee's resolution means the document has been agreed upon by all ministries and will now move to formal approval by the Council of Ministers. It is a step the Polish government had been waiting for since the European Commission announced in February 2025 its plan to fund five, and eventually seven, AI gigafactories across the EU.
What an AI gigafactory is
In EU terminology, an AI gigafactory is computing infrastructure built for training and deploying large artificial intelligence models, equipped with tens of thousands of graphics processors. The European Commission plans seven such facilities across the EU, four medium-scale sites with at least 75,000 GPUs and three large-scale sites with at least 100,000 GPUs. They are meant to give European companies and research institutions access to computing power comparable to what American and Chinese tech giants command today.
Poland has taken part in the negotiations since June 2025 as part of the Baltic AI GigaFactory consortium, together with Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Czechia. The project's final structure allows for distributed or multinational models within consortia, so it is not yet settled whether the physical infrastructure will be built at a single site or split among the participating countries.
The next step belongs to the entrepreneurs who will form the consortia - Dariusz Standerski, Deputy Minister of Digitalization
Where the funding comes from
Funding for the project is expected to be mixed. The public support ceiling stands at 1 billion euros, half of it from the EU's InvestAI initiative managed by the European Commission, the other half from the states participating in the consortium. State subsidies for a single project, however, cannot exceed 34 percent of its value, meaning most of the declared 3 billion euros will have to come from the private sector.
That is why Standerski stressed that the next stage depends on businesses. The government is pledging guarantees and a share of public financing, but without business consortia willing to invest their own capital, the project will not move forward. No specific companies or investors expected to enter the tender have been named so far.
What comes next
Under the announced timeline, the tender to build and operate the gigafactory is set to open after July 20, 2026 and run for 15 weeks. The winning contractor will then have a maximum of 18 months from signing the contract to launch the service, which at the current pace would put the facility's start of operations around July 2028.
For Polish tech companies and research centers, this means potential access to computing power that is currently the main bottleneck for AI development in Europe. Domestic teams working on models such as Bielik have long pointed out that the lack of local infrastructure forces them to rely on foreign supercomputers or costly cloud services. A homegrown gigafactory, even under a consortium model, could partly solve that problem.
The committee's resolution is still an intermediate step, not a final decision to build. The document still has to pass through the Council of Ministers, and the European Commission must confirm the final list of countries taking part in each gigafactory. Only after those steps will it be clear whether, and where in Poland or the Baltic states, physical infrastructure will actually be built.
Sources: WNP.pl (wnp.pl), Interia Biznes (biznes.interia.pl), Wyborcza.biz (wyborcza.biz)
