By David M Williams
Publication Date: 2026-02-05 11:12:00
HPE has expanded its NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio with new “secure AI factory” building blocks, including a planned AI factory lab in Grenoble, France, aimed at helping customers validate sovereign and compliant AI deployments, a theme that is resonating far beyond Europe as governments and regulated industries tighten requirements around data residency and operational control.
In HPE Discover Barcelona By the end of 2025, the company positioned the modern data center as an “AI factory” – a production line for training, tuning and inference – and said the next stage is to make those factories secure, scalable and with sovereign capacity. In practice, HPEThe upgrade combines HPE infrastructure, HPE Alletra storage, and a combination of NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networks, along with HPE Juniper Networking (MX/PTX) routing for high-speed connectivity to and between AI clusters.
A key announcement is the AI Factory Lab in Grenoble, scheduled…
