Bull AI doubles production capacity for European AI projects

New York. French supercomputer manufacturer Bull AI has doubled its production capacity for European AI projects. The company reopened an expanded factory in Angers, western France, on Thursday, executives told Reuters. Production increases from six to twelve server racks per month.

Production could be increased to 24 units next year if demand continues. The expansion of the only factory in Europe specializing in supercomputers reportedly cost 80 million euros. The European Union (EU) wants to catch up with the USA and China in computing power by investing seven billion euros by 2027.

Bull AI is benefiting from this development and has received more orders this year than ever before. The company won 15 of 18 tenders from the EU organization EuroHPC, the EU's supercomputer authority, and beat Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among others.

At the end of August, as Reuters already reported, the EU authority ordered an AI high-performance computer from the French for an existing data center in Finland. The order has a volume of 387.8 million euros and is the largest for Bull AI to date. The computer is expected to begin operations in the second half of 2027.