Two tech giants have made a historic collaboration that will bring a paradigm shift to Europe’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. The collaboration comes at a time when there are rising challenges related to energy consumption and data sovereignty being adopted within AI infrastructures across Europe. This collaboration emerged as a result of combining expertise that took several decades with the latest AI-cloud infrastructure capabilities. It is a historic move toward developing sustainable AI with solutions fit for Europe.
Strategic partnership meets demands for Europe’s AI infrastructure
Fujitsu Limited and Scaleway have entered into a strategic partnership that aims at creating sustainable environments for AI use and ensuring data sovereignty for businesses within Europe. The partnership began on November 27th with an MOU signing ceremony involving the two parties. The adoption of AI within Europe at a very high rate leads to calls for environments that optimize performance and energy consumption while addressing data sovereignty.
Organizations are increasingly running their AI models at scale and continuously within production environments. There needs to be predictability and efficiency in terms of operating expenses and minimizing ecological impact. CPU architectures are more suited for these needs because they are stable and efficient with low energy usage and easy adoption within existing technological ecosystems. The collaboration will focus on CPU-based alternatives for running AI inference.
Joint testing confirms optimal infrastructural environments
Engineering teams from both sides will collaborate on testing the processing abilities with real-world inference use cases and examining ways to integrate with Scaleway’s existing set of AI infrastructure services. The goal would be to offer more options to European builders and unlock ways for scalable AI implementation with an emphasis on efficiency and sustainability. The testing would cover performance parameters and make sure there are no issues with integrations.
FUJITSU-MONAKA processor breaks the performance
The collaboration focuses on Fujitsu’s latest FUJITSU-MONAKA CPU platform, which uses world-leading technologies fostered from supercomputer development efforts. Based on cutting-edge 2nm technologies and equipped with a special micro-architecture designed for sophisticated 3D packaging and extremely low voltage operation, it boasts outstanding processing capabilities. Preliminary testing shows an increase of up to 1.9 times and 1.7 times for selected inferencing tasks compared to conventional approaches with regard to power and cost efficiencies.
MONAKA is capable of handling models with as many as 70 billion parameters and providing high-performance solutions for organizations that are looking for an efficient manner of AI implementation. The CPU contains special technologies, such as its own microarchitecture that focuses on advanced 3D packaging and low-voltage operation. The technologies allow for efficient performance and energy consumption.
“As the pace of AI’s progress continues at an ever-increasing rate, energy consumption becomes an extremely pressing issue in the global arena,” added Naoki Shinjo, SVP and Head of Advanced Technology Development Unit at Fujitsu Limited.
Timeline set for 2027 commercial readiness
The parties will start joint Proof of Concept testing in the second half of 2026, based on ongoing conversations to identify key use cases and methods for implementation. Based on these outcomes, they will then identify opportunities for the establishment and distribution of pilot environments for customers from 2027. Going forward, Fujitsu and Scaleway will identify opportunities for the commercialization of CPU-based AI inference services optimized specifically for Europe.
This collaboration marks a remarkable step forward in developing sustainable infrastructure for AI. It tackles several fundamental challenges related to energy efficiency and data sovereignty. The collaboration brings Fujitsu’s knowledge and expertise in developing processors and Scaleway’s cloud infrastructure capabilities within Europe. It helps develop new solutions. Energy-efficient solutions will replace traditional GPU-based systems, helping Europe achieve its objective of greening and still preserving high computing performance.
