Europe is expanding its AI computing infrastructure by selecting Bull, a French state-owned AI computing firm, to build a €387.8 million ($449.7 million) system.
In a statement released Monday, Bull said it has been chosen by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking - an entity created by the EU to drive high-performance computing development - and the LUMI AI Factory consortium to deliver an AI supercomputer.
The company said it will install the new supercomputer at a data center in Kajaani, Finland, and it is expected to come online in the second half of 2027. The system will "provide a tenfold increase" in AI capacity and nearly double the capability of the current LUMI supercomputer, the firm added.
Funding for the project is shared equally between EuroHPC JU and the LUMI AI Factory consortium, which consists of Finland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, and Poland.
"With LUMI-AI, EuroHPC JU has now signed its sixth AI Factory procurement contract for a next-generation AI-optimised supercomputer," EuroHPC JU Executive Director Anders Jensen said, adding that small and medium-sized enterprises will be able to access world-class supercomputing resources.
The new system will be based on the BullSequana XH3500 architecture powered by AMD chips. IBM will provide storage solutions, and Nokia will contribute networking expertise.
"Powered by AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and sixth Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, it will strengthen Europe's sovereign AI capacity, accelerate scientific discovery, and give researchers, startups and industry the scale and flexibility to shape Europe's AI future," said Thomas Zacharia, AMD's senior vice president of global public sector and strategic partnerships.
Bull - which specializes in high-performance computing, AI and quantum technologies - generated €720 million ($835 million) in revenue in 2025, according to its website. In March, the French government completed its acquisition of 100% of Bull's capital from Atos Group.