Accenture has expanded its AI Refinery™ platform for Europe with new sovereign and agentic capabilities to help European organizations maintain control over critical data and apply innovative AI solutions.
The expansion enables European organizations to accelerate the deployment of AI agents while addressing sovereignty concerns, especially for public sector and critical infrastructure industries such as energy, telecommunications, and defense.
Accenture is emphasizing sovereign AI to preserve national data integrity, infrastructure, and cultural identity. In collaboration with NVIDIA, the platform is powering innovation across the public sector, energy, telecom, and Europe’s industrial core—from manufacturing to retail.
As AI adoption increases, managing operations across the AI stack—ranging from infrastructure to applications and data—has become essential. AI Refinery provides a platform-based approach that supports sovereignty by enabling organizations to develop and deploy AI using their own cloud infrastructure, while adhering to data residency and security requirements.
Accenture estimates that Europe will represent up to 30% of the global sovereign AI market by 2030. To meet this demand, the new sovereign AI architecture builds on successful deployments like the comprehensive AI stack implemented with Indosat.
Built on NVIDIA Enterprise AI, the architecture includes configurable models tailored to national contexts, a deployment platform hosted within a nation’s jurisdiction, and customizable solutions for the public sector and critical industries. For example, Accenture is working with a European public utility to deploy sovereign GPUs as-a-service to ensure secure AI compute resources within national borders.
Accenture is also helping European manufacturers enhance resilience in production, warehouse, and supply chain operations. With AI Refinery, clients are using robotics, simulation, and digital twins to optimize operations, in line with the sector’s significant contribution to Europe’s GDP.
A new physical AI software development kit (SDK), introduced today, enables image and video segmentation using natural language queries or predefined parameters. Built using NVIDIA Metropolis and the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization, these capabilities are being explored with KION to improve safety, productivity, and quality control in manufacturing and warehouse settings.
AI Refinery is also helping brands drive growth and competitiveness. Noli, an AI-powered beauty marketplace backed by L'Oréal Groupe, leverages AI Refinery to offer product recommendations based on diagnostics built from over one million face scans and thousands of product analyses.
Similarly, Nestlé has partnered with Accenture to launch an AI-powered content service that creates high-quality eCommerce content at scale. Using digital twins powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, the service allows for digital adjustments to product packaging and seamless adaptation to various digital channels.
Since launching in October 2024, AI Refinery has seen significant momentum. Accenture has filed 55 patent applications in 10 countries and published 12 technical whitepapers. With a target of delivering 100 industry agent solutions by year-end, Accenture introduced a no-code agent builder in March 2025 and followed with Trusted Agent Huddle for multi-agent collaboration in April.
AI Refinery is available across all public and private cloud platforms and integrates with Accenture Business Groups to support AI implementation across SaaS and Cloud ecosystems.
Mauro Macchi, CEO for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Accenture
AI provides a unique opportunity for Europe to reinvent its economy, drive productivity, resilience and competitiveness, and support its future growth. The expansion of our AI Refinery platform enables European organizations to accelerate the deployment of AI agents, while addressing their sovereignty concerns. This is particularly crucial for the public sector and critical infrastructure industries, such as energy, telecommunications and defense.
Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise Software Products, NVIDIA
Sovereign AI is unlocking extraordinary new possibilities while preserving the integrity of national data, infrastructure, and cultural identity across Europe. Together, NVIDIA and Accenture are working with leaders across the public sector, energy, telecom and the continent’s industrial core—from manufacturing to retail—to build a resilient, innovative future powered by AI.
Karthik Narain, Group Chief Executive – Technology and CTO, Accenture
As AI adoption accelerates across industry and society, there is a growing need for management and operations across various elements of the AI stack, from infrastructure to models and applications, including data management. To address this, we’re providing a platform-based approach with AI Refinery for sovereignty, enabling organizations to develop and deploy AI capabilities – leveraging their own cloud infrastructure and adhering to data residency and security requirements with management and observability capabilities baked in – to drive new value and growth while maintaining control in a fast-moving market.
