Industry Findings: Compute demand in Poland has moved from isolated research pilots to coordinated national capacity planning as public institutions and industry seek reliable domestic HPC and sovereign AI resources. A clear policy milestone occurred when the government announced the creation of an Artificial Intelligence Fund of roughly EUR 235 million in Nov-2024 to finance shared infrastructure and cross-government AI projects. This funding signal reduces investment uncertainty and shifts procurement criteria toward scalable, energy-aware processors that integrate with national research clusters and public-sector certification regimes. In the near term, universities and ministries will prioritise accelerators that offer predictable utilisation profiles and lower total cost of ownership for sustained model training; over the medium term, tighter public funding coordination will encourage pooled purchases and vendor roadmaps that emphasise interoperability, reproducible performance metrics and local maintenance ecosystems, strengthening Poland’s capacity to support both civilian and defence-aligned compute needs.
Industry Player Insights: Among the many players in this market, a few include HPE, Google, Asseco, and AGH University/Cyfronet etc. HPE delivered Poland’s Helios supercomputer for AGH University in Apr-2024, materially increasing local training capacity and prompting research consortia to accelerate model-scale experiments in life sciences and materials science. Google formalised a strategic memorandum with Polish authorities in Feb-2025 to expand its Warsaw engineering hub and collaborate on AI use cases for energy and cybersecurity, opening pathways for cloud-hosted accelerator access and skills funding. Asseco deepened systems-integration support for national tenders in 2024 by bundling local data-residency controls with appliance-level accelerators, shortening procurement lead times for public buyers. These vendor actions collectively increase on-ramp options to large-scale compute, nudge procurement toward hybrid cloud–on-prem stacks, and improve the availability of validated accelerator stacks for Polish research and regulated sectors.