January 20, 2026 -- The latest amendment to the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking regulation enters into force today, adding additional new action pillars to EuroHPC JU’s mandate on the deployment of AI Gigafactories across Europe and the development of quantum technologies.

AI Gigafactories

The amendment widens the scope of Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1732, and takes the Europe’s AI Factories initiative to the next level with the AI Gigafactories initiative. The Gigafactories will be state-of-the-art large-scale facilities which offer massive computing power, hosted in energy-efficient data centres supporting the full AI lifecycle, including the development, training and large-scale inference of very large AI models and applications.

AI Gigafactories will provide advanced AI computing resources to European researchers, startups, and industrial partners.

Built on an environmentally sustainable compute infrastructure, they will reinforce the European Union’s strategic autonomy and competitiveness in advanced AI technologies. They will facilitate the development of powerful and responsible AI models trained on European data, ensuring safe, trustworthy and ethical AI.

Quantum Technologies

The new quantum technologies pillar will address the full quantum ecosystem including different application domains of quantum computing and simulation, quantum communication, and quantum sensing and metrology.

It will strengthen the security, resilience and competitiveness of the European quantum supply chain, while enhancing the EU’s scientific and industrial leadership, strategic autonomy, and technological sovereignty.

EuroHPC JU will be responsible for implementing the Union’s quantum technology agenda, including research and innovation activities such as the Union’s Quantum Flagship with funds from the Horizon Europe Programme.

Future calls in quantum technologies will be integrated into the EuroHPC JU’s work programme, fostering synergies across HPC and quantum technologies will support fundamental and applied research, the lab-to-fab transition, and the deployment and integration of quantum technologies in world-class infrastructures, building a dynamic, sustainable, and resilient EU quantum ecosystem.

New Expert Group in Quantum Technologies

Consequently, the EuroHPC JU and its governance structure will adopt changes to include expertise in Quantum Technologies. In the coming months, as part of EuroHPC JU’s Industrial and Scientific Advisory Board, a new EuroHPC Quantum Technologies Advisory Group (QTAG) will be established.

QTAG will provide input to the JU’s Multi Annual Strategic Plan (MASP), as well as expert advice to the EuroHPC JU’s Governing Board, alongside the existing Research and Innovation Advisory Group (RIAG) and the Infrastructure Advisory Group (INFRAG).

The EuroHPC JU is currently preparing the implementation of these changes, which are effective of today.