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Czechia
Czechia has a 2030 AI strategy, the Karolina supercomputer in Ostrava and a new AI Factory, while distributors log about 1 GW of data centre connection requests.
The government approved the updated National AI Strategy 2030 in 2024 with an action plan of about 19 billion crowns. The EuroHPC-backed Czech AI Factory, led by VSB Technical University of Ostrava, will add an AI supercomputer called KarolAIna on roughly 340 AI chips, at a total cost of about one billion crowns. The ministry reports data centre connection requests of 50 to 200 MW per project but has no analysis to 2030. For someone seeking compute, Karolina is available now and KarolAIna is planned. Private AI data centres near Brno and Prague are in preparation.
AI policy and activity
The strategy covers research, education, skills, ethics and law, security, business and public administration. EuroHPC's AI Factories page lists the Czech AI Factory (CZAI) among its newer selections.
Power and grid
Forbes Czechia reports the three main distributors have logged data centre connection requests totalling about 1 GW, equal to one Temelin unit. The industry ministry says individual projects run from 50 to 200 MW. A consultancy estimate cited there puts data centre use near 1.8 TWh a year by 2030, against national consumption of about 60 TWh.
Data centres and compute
| Site | Where | Status | Notes and source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karolina IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center | Ostrava | Operating | EuroHPC lists 9.59 petaflops sustained, with a GPU partition built for AI. (source) |
| KarolAIna AI supercomputer VSB Technical University of Ostrava (CZAI consortium) | Ostrava | Planned | Czech news report: about 340 AI chips and about one billion crowns for the project. (source) |
| MasterDC AI data centre MasterDC | Kanice near Brno | Planned | Forbes Czechia says MasterDC is preparing a specialised AI data centre. It also names the Prague Gateway DC by Ceske Radiokomunikace near Zbraslav as planned. (source) |
Rules and programmes
| Instrument | Kind | Status | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2030 | Policy | In force | Czech trade office summary dated 26 July 2024, citing the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Seven priority areas and about 19 billion crowns of projects. |
| Czech AI Factory (CZAI) | Programme | In force | EuroHPC listing. Detail on KarolAIna and the cost comes from a Czech business news report (Newstream). |
Checked on 2 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.