Buying a DGX B300 in the EU: what the supplier asks and how a project order runs

How to buy a DGX B300 in the EU

A DGX B300 is bought per project, not from a price list. Before a supplier can quote, the distribution asks for the company, the project and the intended use, and the site where the system will run decides its power version, rack power and cabling. The EU dual-use list has entries for certain integrated circuits and for computers containing them, the price is set per project, and the order runs from enquiry and approval through quote, delivery and installation to an acceptance test.

NVIDIA’s DGX B300 page, updated on 15 October 2026, says “Deploy NVIDIA DGX B300 today on premises, in a colocation facility, or in the cloud through one of our partners”, and points to the regional sites for “where to buy partners specific to your country”. The same page describes a 10U system with eight Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 2.1 TB of GPU memory. The full specifications, power figures and MIG profiles are in our article on DGX B300 specs and power requirements, and our comparison of DGX B300, DGX B200 and HGX B300 servers explains what differs between NVIDIA’s own system and the servers that manufacturers build on the HGX B300 board.

What the supplier asks before a DGX B300 quote

We supply the DGX B300 per project. Before we can quote, the distribution asks us for the company, the project and the intended use. We also ask for the site, because we check the rack, power and airflow before we quote, and the configuration follows from them.

The first three rows are what the distribution asks us for; the others follow from the configuration and from Article 12(4) of Regulation (EU) 2021/821.

Approvals take longer than an order for cards, so the complete set belongs in the first enquiry.

Send us the company, the project and the intended use through the form below, and we check price and availability for your project.

Export control for a DGX B300 in the EU

Since 15 November 2025, Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2021/821, the EU dual-use list, has been the version set by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2003. The Commission’s summary of the 2025 amendments lists a new entry 3A501.a.16 for integrated circuits and a new entry 4A507 for “computers, electronic assemblies, and components containing one or more integrated circuits specified by 3A501a16”. The summary says it is for information only and “has no force in law”; the binding text is the annex published in the Official Journal. The Commission adopted a further update of Annex I on 14 September 2026 (C(2026) 6323), so check in the Official Journal which version applies on the date of delivery.

Article 3(1) of the regulation states: “An authorisation shall be required for the export of dual-use items listed in Annex I.” For movements inside the EU, Article 11(1) requires an authorisation for intra-Union transfers of the items listed in Annex IV, and Article 11(2) lets a Member State require one for other dual-use items in the cases it sets out. Article 12(4) states that “Individual export authorisations shall be subject to an end-use statement”, and exporters supply information in particular about the end user, the country of destination and the end use. A system delivered to a data centre in the EU is therefore a different case from one that is shipped on to a site outside it, and the destination belongs in the enquiry.

Which entry covers a given system, and whether a delivery needs an authorisation, follows from the classification that the manufacturer or exporter gives and is a legal assessment for the company’s legal department. Our guide to the end-user certificate for NVIDIA GPUs explains what such a statement contains and who signs it.

Why there is no DGX B300 list price

This article states no DGX B300 price, because two quotes for “a DGX B300” can describe different deliveries. The system comes in an AC version with power supplies and a busbar version for 54 V DC power shelves. The AC version ships with twelve locking power cords and the busbar version without its power shelves, and the user guide states that the system “is not shipped with network cables or adapters”. NVIDIA’s product page lists “Three-year business-standard support”, and a higher support level or an onsite option is a separate line.

Software adds further lines. The product page lists DGX OS as included and NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Mission Control as recommended, so the quote has to say which of them it contains and for how long. Installation, delivery terms and the acceptance test complete the scope, and the approval of the project by the distribution comes before any of it is priced.

Room, power and network to prepare

The user guide, last updated on 5 October 2026, gives a 10U system of 442 × 482.6 × 904.2 mm (H × W × L) that weighs 168 kg with power supplies and 123 kg in the busbar version. Its safety chapter says the rack must be anchored, installed from the bottom up “with the heaviest equipment at the bottom”, and that “The rail racks are designed to carry only the weight of the server system.”

The AC version has twelve 3.2 kW power supplies for N+N redundancy at 200 to 240 V, with twelve power inlets for C19/C20 cords. Each power supply needs its own cord, so one system takes twelve C19 outlets and two systems take twenty-four. The guide also makes the operator responsible for a labelled main power disconnect for the whole rack.

For power consumption, the product page says about 14 kW and the user guide 14.5 kW, while the datasheet of February 2026 lists 15.1 kW for the AC version and 14.5 kW for the busbar version. NVIDIA’s “Data Center Best Practices with DGX B300”, version 1.0 of 27 February 2026, estimates a peak of 19.7 kW per AC system at 25 °C supply air. It puts two systems in a rack with AC rack PDUs at 30 kW average and 39.4 kW peak, or four on a DC busbar at 58 kW average and 76 kW peak. Check the peak figures against what your room or your colocation contract supplies per rack.

The same document asks for up to about 2,145 CFM of supply air per system at sea level, and it recommends active rear-door heat exchangers for high-density deployments while it advises against passive ones. The user guide gives an inlet air range of 10 to 30 °C, and the data-centre guide, which prints an operating range of 10 to 35 °C, sets a maximum supply air temperature of 30 °C. On the network side, the product page lists eight OSFP ports at up to 800 Gb/s, two dual-port QSFP112 DPUs at up to 400 Gb/s and two 1 GbE RJ45 ports. Decide before the order whether one system stands alone or two systems share a compute fabric, because switch ports, cables and transceivers follow from that decision.

Support term and NVIDIA AI Enterprise licences

NVIDIA’s support details for DGX hardware include advance replacement with next-business-day delivery under Business Standard, with a four-hour option. Under Business Standard, technical support runs in local business hours, with an initial response to a severity 1 case within four business hours; Business Critical shortens that response to one hour. NVIDIA recommends that customers “register their Entitlement Certificate prior to installation”, so ask for the certificate with the delivery documents. If the system will run longer than the three years in the specification, ask for the renewal terms in writing.

NVIDIA’s licensing guide, updated on 2 September 2026, states that “NVIDIA AI Enterprise software is licensed on a per-GPU basis” and that its licences “need to be purchased separately for NVIDIA DGX systems using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture.” A DGX B300 with eight GPUs therefore needs eight licences where AI Enterprise is used, and two systems need sixteen. Whether a project needs them at all depends on NIM in production, vGPU compute profiles and NVIDIA support for the software stack, as our guide to how NVIDIA AI Enterprise is licensed explains.

What a DGX B300 quote should list

Where a line below is missing from a quote, ask whether it is excluded or included without being named.

Our checklist; system, power, network and support facts from NVIDIA’s DGX B300 product page and user guide and NVIDIA’s Enterprise Support details, read on 16 October 2026.

Write to us with the site, the number of systems and the support level in the form below, and we check price and availability for your DGX B300 project.

How a DGX B300 project order runs

The approval comes before the quote, for one system or for two.

1. You send the enquiry with the company, project, intended use, site, number of systems and support level.
2. We work out the configuration: AC or busbar version, network ports and cabling, licences and services.
3. We pass the project data to the distribution for approval, which is not certain until it is given.
4. You receive a written quote with the line items from the table above.
5. You place the order, with an end-use statement where the delivery route needs one.
6. The crate goes to the staging area, and NVIDIA partner network or NVIDIA field service engineers install and power on the system.
7. Acceptance tests run on site before the system goes into production.

Delivery, installation and acceptance

The user guide gives a packaged weight of 207.6 kg for the AC version and 162.6 kg for the busbar version, in a package of 1,065 × 711 × 1,178 mm (H × W × L). NVIDIA’s data-centre document asks whether the site has “a loading dock with hydraulic levelers” and “sufficient secure staging space to unpack or uncrate the equipment”. It lists “Ramps, Door Dimensions, Elevators, Turn Radiuses” for the pathway to the rack. Check the doors, lifts and their load ratings on that route against the package dimensions and weight, and ask the colocation provider for its delivery rules if the system goes there.

The user guide asks for mechanical assistance when moving and lifting the equipment, and its installation chapter states that the system “must be installed by NVIDIA partner network personnel or NVIDIA field service engineers”. Agree in the order who installs the system and when; your data-centre staff or the colocation provider prepare the rack and the power.

Acceptance confirms that what arrived matches the order and runs under load. Record the serial numbers of the system and the GPUs against the delivery note, then run the diagnostics, a sustained load and the GPU-to-GPU bandwidth tests described in our GPU server acceptance testing guide, and keep the outputs as the baseline for monitoring.

What we supply

We supply the DGX B300 per project, and HGX B300 servers the same way, on one EU contract and invoice with manufacturer warranty. Before we can quote, the distribution asks us for the company, the project and the intended use, and approvals take longer than an order for cards. Where each model copy fits one 96 GB or 141 GB card, we build AI servers to order with the RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition or the H200 NVL from our professional NVIDIA GPU range, assembled and burn-in tested. NVIDIA AI Enterprise licences come on the same invoice as the hardware.

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