Spain pursues €5B EU AI gigafactory with state backed bid
Spain has submitted the EU’s only AI gigafactory proposal backed by a majority state owned vehicle, with public entity SETT holding 47.99% and the Catalan government 1% of the project company. Telefonica, ACS and Banco Santander each own 15.67% and Multiverse Computing 4%, with Spain planning to commit €720 million to mobilise roughly €5 billion in AI compute infrastructure investment plus €300 million for EuroHPC. ([euroweeklynews.com](https://euroweeklynews.com/2026/08/29/spain-thinks-big-state-backed-ai-gigafactory-targets-e5-billion-investment/))
Source: Euro Weekly News
