French AI lab Mistral AI has signed a capacity agreement with colo provider Digital Realty.
Under the agreement, Mistral AI will deploy AI compute infrastructure at the Digital Realty Paris South campus. The scale of the deployment and the specific data centers within the campus set to be used have not been shared.
The deal will enable Mistral to expand its compute capacity, while also accessing Digital Realty's platform of thousands of enterprises, digital service providers, and technology partners within a single ecosystem, allowing customers to use Mistral's AI service with low-latency connectivity, the company said in a statement.
“We are proud to host Mistral AI’s infrastructure at our Paris South campus. Our data center platform enables AI innovators to scale quickly while enabling enterprises to access and deploy AI services within a secure and performant environment,” said Fabrice Coquio, SVP and managing director of Digital Realty in France.
Digital Realty has 13 data centers in Paris with a total of 932,500 sq ft (86,600 sqm) of data center space.
Earlier this year, Mistral AI raised $830 million in debt to finance Nvidia Grace Blackwell infrastructure, and give Mistral, which makes ChatGPT competitor Le Chat, access to 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs and 44MW of powered capacity at a data center in Bruyères-le-Châtel, south of Paris, which is owned and run by French data center firm Eclairion.
Elsewhere, the AI lab has a deal with EcoDataCenter to install AI infrastructure at the colo firm’s data centers in Sweden, and has signed on to procure around 18,000 Nvidia GB200 GPUs from cloud provider Scaleway, though this seems to have been delayed and amended to include a newer generation of GPUs instead.