Supporting the construction of an AI-sovereign Europe – Polarize | Macquarie Group

Supporting the construction of an AI-sovereign Europe – Polarize | Macquarie Group

By Macquarie
Publication Date: 2026-02-18 00:00:00

The EU has less than 5 percent of the world’s AI computing power and faces an urgent need to develop a sovereign, industrial-grade AI infrastructure.1

Closing the gap with market leaders such as the US and China requires investment in infrastructure that combines Europe’s world-class manufacturing base with secure high performance computing (HPC).

Polarize is one of the few full-service providers of AI-enabled data centers and develops and operates highly efficient AI factories – ecosystems that promote innovation, collaboration and development in the field of artificial intelligence2 – in Germany and all of Europe. The company plays a key role in providing the HPC infrastructure for an industrial AI cloud platform, with its AI factory in Munich laying the foundation for supporting European companies with cutting-edge AI and HPC.

This Munich facility will be the first industrial AI factory for European companies, designed to scale energy, cooling and security to…