Mistral AI wants to build 1 gigawatt of European compute by 2030 — and lock in customers now.

Mistral AI wants to turn European AI sovereignty from a talking point into a product — one with a service-level agreement attached.The French artificial intelligence company announced Tuesday a three-part expansion of its infrastructure business: regional inference endpoints that let customers choose whether their AI workloads run in Europe or the United States, a new "Priority Tier" backed by an uptime guarantee for mission-critical deployments, and a coalition of European enterprises making multi-year compute commitments that Mistral says will underwrite 200 megawatts of infrastructure across Europe by the end of 2027 — and a full gigawatt by the end of 2030.In a move that may raise eyebrows among sovereignty purists, the company also said it will begin hosting third-party open models on