Sweden Forms Consortium to Develop AI Factory

The Swedish consortium partners – Ericsson, AstraZeneca, SAAB, SEB, and Wallenberg Investments– will build the system that will be operated by a joint company. It aims to offer secure, sovereign compute access to the industry partners, and to drive AI innovation through knowledge sharing and boosting competence within the industry.

The intended first phase of the deployment will be two NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs featuring NVIDIA’s latest generation Grace Blackwell GB300 systems, making it the largest enterprise AI supercomputer in Sweden once operational. It is intended to run compute-heavy AI workloads to speed up processes such as training of domain-specific AI models and large-scale inference, including reasoning AI.

To support the Swedish Consortium and NVIDIA's goals, NVIDIA plans to establish its first AI Technology Center in Sweden to drive AI research with industry partners. NVIDIA founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, addressed the new initiative while attending events in southern Sweden last week, alongside Marcus Wallenberg, Chair of Wallenberg Investments.

“AI has a key role to play in the network evolution with high-performance programmable and autonomous networks. AI and 5G are also critical in the future competitiveness of Sweden and other countries, by driving innovation, enabling start-ups, and delivering new use cases and capabilities. As a company that already invests heavily in AI research and development, Ericsson is looking forward to working with other leading Swedish companies and NVIDIA to ensure Sweden is at the forefront of AI development and benefits,” said Erik Ekudden, CTO at Ericsson.

“As electricity powered the industrial age and the Internet fueled the digital age, AI is the engine of the next industrial revolution. Through the visionary initiative of Wallenberg Investments and Sweden’s industry leaders, the country is building its first AI infrastructure—laying the foundation for breakthroughs across science, industry, and society, and securing Sweden’s place at the forefront of the AI era,” added Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.

“Investing in cutting-edge AI infrastructure is a crucial step toward accelerating the development and adoption of AI across Swedish industry. We believe this initiative will generate valuable spillover effects—by enabling upskilling, fostering new collaborations, and strengthening the broader national AI ecosystem,” concluded Marcus Wallenberg, chair of Wallenberg Investments.