Hungary has joined a Poland-led consortium bidding for an AI Gigafactory, committing €25 million to the first phase alongside Poland and Czechia at €100 million each. The figures come from the Hungarian outlet VG.hu on 16 July 2026, corroborating an earlier report in the Central European Times.12
AI Gigafactories are the large-scale computing sites EuroHPC is procuring under a call that opened on 30 July and closes to bids on 12 November, with a requirement that a site span at least seven member states. Bidders assemble themselves; the money each government puts in is a national decision announced nationally, which is why a commitment can be on the record in Budapest before anything is on the record in Luxembourg.
EuroHPC has confirmed no consortium for this call. Both statements hold at once and neither cancels the other: a bidder can describe its own bloc while the awarding body says nothing until bids close. Read the €25 million as a declared national commitment reported by one outlet and corroborated by another, not as a confirmed allocation. The competition itself will not produce a public answer before 12 November.
