AI Super-Factories: Infrastructure That Feeds Europe
A private VIP lunch during Kickstart Europe 2026. Hosted by Digital Energy. 50 seats.
The constraint
Conventional data center development for AI workloads hits a wall.
AI compute demand doubles every six months. Europe's grid grows 3-5% annually.
Major Tier-1 markets are gridlocked. Interconnection queues stretch five years or more.
Most capital flows into retrofits that can't handle AI density, expansions in oversaturated markets, or projects stalled in endless interconnection queues.
The constraint is not ambition. It is power, permitting, and time.
Those who solve this first will define the next decade of European AI.
The emerging model
NVIDIA calls it AI Super-Factories: distributed capacity orchestrated as one integrated system, rather than centralized grid-constrained mega-campuses waiting for connections that may never come.
The distributed model changes what you're building. Not data centers that need energy, but energy infrastructure that computes.
The breakthrough: Infrastructure serving industrial energy needs gets permitted. Infrastructure competing for power doesn't.
Circular economy implementations go further: compute heat replaces fossil fuels in food production, manufacturing, or district heating. One watt does two jobs. No new grid strain.
This matters beyond deployment timelines. We're at the most significant technological and industrial inflection point since electrification.
Europe can't afford to be merely a consumer of AI infrastructure, dependent on approaches designed for different regulatory environments and energy landscapes. The distributed approach gives Europe a place in the race, with infrastructure that aligns with sustainability commitments, strengthens local industry, and remains sovereign.
AI infrastructure that strengthens European industry gets built. Infrastructure that competes with it for power will not.
The conversation
Confirmed speakers:
Stijn Grove, Managing Director of the Dutch Data Center Association, will share off-the-record remarks on how energy-first infrastructure moves through European permitting differently.
Koen van den Berg, AI Factory Specialist EMEA at NVIDIA, will share on European AI Factories and how the space is evolving. What NVIDIA is seeing across EMEA as the market shifts from traditional data centers to purpose-built AI infrastructure.
Vladimir Prodanovic, Principal Program Manager at NVIDIA, will share how live high-density deployments are happening in Europe today. How operators are planning and building for next-generation rack densities, and what it takes to future-proof your infrastructure now.
David Hughes, CTO at Stelia, will share what it takes to orchestrate AI workloads across physically distributed infrastructure. With experience scaling GPU cloud platforms and hyperscaler-tier systems, David brings operational perspective on what breaks and what works when your AI Factory isn't a single building.
Carlos Reuven, Founder & CEO at Digital Energy will share the thesis behind building Europe's first sovereign AI Super-Factory. Why the distributed model wins where centralized campuses fail, and how circular economy infrastructure changes the rules on permitting, financing, and speed to market.
Digital Energy will walk through the operational model: 100+ MW across 12 sites in the Netherlands, first deployments Q4 2026. Scaling to 1 GW by 2030 and 5 GW+ pan-Europe by 2035. Insights into technical design, site integration, financing mechanics, and deployment schedule.
The focus: solving power and permitting constraints simultaneously where traditional capacity doesn't exist.
A working lunch with senior decision-makers shaping European AI infrastructure.
Who should attend
Investors: This is a new infrastructure category forming in Europe around distributed, industrial-integrated AI capacity. Meet the operators deploying the first reference implementation, understand the unit economics and risk profile, and evaluate early financing opportunities in the Netherlands program.
Colocation buyers: If you need sovereign, high-density, liquid-cooled capacity available in 2026, not 2030, this is for you. The operators building it will be here. You'll see technical specifications, deployment timelines, and have direct access to discuss procurement.
Vendors and integrators: New infrastructure creates new opportunities. The operators awarding multi-site cooling, networking, orchestration, and integration work are in the room and looking for partnerships to accelerate and grow.
The room is small for a reason. If you're deploying capital, building capacity, or selling into this space, the people you need to meet will be here.
Format
Hosted lunch. Limited capacity. Venue shared with confirmed attendees only.
Co-sponsorship opportunities available.
About Digital Energy: digital-energy.group
About Dutch Data Center Association: dutchdatacenters.nl
About NVIDIA: nvidia.com
About Stelia: stelia.ai