FuriosaAI, an artificial intelligence chip company, is teaming up with global digital infrastructure firm Equinix to make a full-scale push into Europe's sovereign AI and AI infrastructure markets.
FuriosaAI said Wednesday it will build "RNGD (Renegade)" servers at Equinix's LS2 data center in Lisbon, Portugal. The servers will be operated so that European companies can directly verify RNGD's performance, power efficiency, and ease of use based on actual AI models and workloads.
The partnership means FuriosaAI is building a full-scale customer support system on the ground in Europe. FuriosaAI will support European companies and sovereign AI projects in running large language models and agentic AI directly on the RNGD servers built in Lisbon, and in verifying their own models and workloads. Engineers at the local subsidiary FuriosaAI established in Lisbon earlier this year will provide the technical support needed for RNGD evaluation and adoption across the entire process, including model operation, software application, and system configuration.
The neural processing unit (NPU) RNGD, which will be intensively deployed at the Lisbon center, is an AI inference accelerator for data centers based on the Tensor Contraction Processor (TCP) architecture developed in-house by FuriosaAI. Earlier this year, RNGD became one of the few HBM-based AI accelerators in the world to succeed in mass production. It runs large language models and agentic AI with high power efficiency while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership of infrastructure compared with graphics processing units (GPUs). It can be operated directly in existing standard air-cooled data center environments, allowing adoption without separate investment in cooling infrastructure.
"In Europe, as AI services spread rapidly, building efficient AI infrastructure is emerging as a strategic challenge amid constraints on power and cooling infrastructure," said June Paik, CEO of FuriosaAI. "Through our partnership with Equinix, we will help European companies and sovereign AI projects verify RNGD's performance and cost-effectiveness in real environments and build AI services more quickly."
FuriosaAI plans to showcase RNGD and its latest software stack at the RAISE Summit 2026, held in Paris this week, where it will continue discussions on AI infrastructure adoption with European customers and sovereign AI projects.
