2CRSi, the Strasbourg-listed server maker, announced that Aether Infrastructures reached a key milestone in the AETHER project on October 9: a preliminary sale agreement (promesse de vente) for the Dumarey Powerglide industrial site, formerly Punch Powerglide and General Motors, in the Port du Rhin district of Strasbourg. The site, code-named FR-SXB2, covers around 90 hectares and about 110,000 square meters of buildings. A lease was signed alongside the agreement allowing the areas already available to be occupied from October 15 to prepare the first stages of the project.
The project is structured as an integrated industrial ecosystem around three entities: Aether Utilities for energy, Aether Facilities for the campus and buildings, and Aether Compute, which will operate an AI Factory offering sovereign computing capacity to businesses, public-sector bodies and the research community. The offer spans data center services, dedicated server rental and cloud services with the consortium’s partners.
As a consortium member and prospective server supplier, 2CRSi estimates that rolling out the AI Factory’s initial computing capacity over its 2026-2027 financial year represents revenue potential of more than €1 billion, subject to the usual caveats around permits and component availability. The site also lets 2CRSi reshore part of the value added of its GODì server range, initially the integration of processors, DRAM and SSD storage, and later motherboard production, building a European supply chain for AI-server components.
On energy, the 25 megawatts supplied by Strasbourg Électricité Réseaux would be supplemented by secured power and storage capacity with SOCOMEC and a biomass thermolysis unit studied with Haffner Energy, potentially achieving a net-negative carbon footprint through biochar production. A heat network would recover heat from the servers.
The consortium’s listed partners include Nvidia, AMD, Axelera AI, VSORA, SiPearl, Dassault Systèmes, Outscale, Viridien, Valeo, Demathieu Bard, Equans and Clever Cloud, with Nhood advising on site transformation and Projex Ingénierie on computing infrastructure. All figures and the €1 billion revenue estimate come from the issuer’s own announcement; no independent reporting of the agreement was available.