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# Commission and EIB Group team up to back EU's planned AI Gigafactories
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-12-04-eu-eib-ai-gigafactories-mou/
- Published: 2025-12-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T12:00:20.000Z
- Description: The Commission and the EIB Group signed a memorandum to support the EUR 20 billion InvestAI AI Gigafactories programme. A call for interest is planned for early 2026 after 76 expressions of interest from 16 member states for up to five sites.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, #news, #verified, #editor-read

Verified Editor-read [European Commission press release, 4 December 2025](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-and-european-investment-bank-group-team-support-ai-gigafactories?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that the call has opened, that any site has been chosen, or that any loan has been approved.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-07\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)