Latvia

Name: Latvia
Address: LV

Latvia set up a national AI Centre by law in 2025, with power to run regulatory sandboxes, and joins LUMI through an AI Factory Antenna led by Riga Technical University.

The Saeima adopted the Artificial Intelligence Centre Law on 6 March 2025, creating a foundation to build the AI ecosystem, with authority to set up regulatory sandboxes. In October 2025 EuroHPC selected AIFA-LAT, an AI Factory Antenna led by Riga Technical University and linked to the LUMI AI Factory in Finland, to run from 2026 to 2028. The ministry says it will give Latvia access to European supercomputing capacity. We found no national data centre records to add.

AI policy and activity

Latvia's stated AI niches are language technologies, health data analytics and cybersecurity. The AI Centre's founders include ministries, the ICT association and the universities association, with oversight by the State Digital Development Agency.

Power and grid

No data centre records added: none of the pages read named a Latvian facility. We did not fetch grid operator pages, so no grid facts are recorded.

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Artificial Intelligence Centre Law Read the cited source	Law	In force	Primary. Saeima release: adopted 6 March 2025, in force on promulgation, centre to be set up by 31 March 2025. Allows sandboxes where some legal requirements may be waived under conditions. No compute provisions described.
AIFA-LAT AI Factory Antenna Read the cited source	Programme	In force	Primary. Ministry of Education and Science, 14 October 2025: led by Riga Technical University, implementation 2026 to 2028, linked to the LUMI AI Factory, with national co-funding. Selection also confirmed in the EuroHPC release of 13 October 2025.

Checked on 3 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 If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 3). Latvia: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/latvia

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@misc{computefinder_countries_latvia,
  title        = {Latvia: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0079}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0079},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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