Evidence-backed European AI register
SURF
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for SURF.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- EU headquarters
- Headquarters country
- Netherlands
- Headquarters city
- Utrecht
- Legal entity
- cooperative (coöperatie) owned by Dutch education and research institutions
- Ownership
- non-profit member cooperative (Dutch universities, UMCs, universities of applied sciences, research institutes)
- Founded
- 1986
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
Branch addresses: Head office: Moreelsepark 48, 3511 EP Utrecht Branch office: Science Park 140, 1098 XG Amsterdam
SURF's own English contact page explicitly designates Moreelsepark 48, 3511 EP Utrecht as the 'Head office' and contrasts it with the Amsterdam Science Park 'Branch office'. Head office is qualifying headquarters wording and is bound to Utrecht, Netherlands.
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Headquarters is independent of incorporation, registered offices, ownership, hosting and runtime. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.
Profile note
Operator of Snellius, the Dutch national supercomputer, and a co-owner of GPT-NL. Snellius was expanded with 352 NVIDIA H100 GPUs across 88 nodes (commissioned 11 July 2024), taking theoretical peak performance from ~15 PFlop/s to nearly 38 PFlop/s; SURF stated this was the final upgrade before a next-generation replacement system. SURF is the compute anchor of Dutch sovereign AI. No published commercial rate card — pricing recorded as null.
Record sources
- https://www.surf.nl/en/news/gpu-expansion-of-supercomputer-snellius-enables-even-faster-data-processing-for-d…
- https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/surfs-latest-snellius-upgrade-enhances-ai-research-capabilities-with-nvi…
- https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/snellius-supercomputer/
- https://www.surf.nl/en/themes/artificial-intelligence/gpt-nl
- https://www.surf.nl/