Bull-Foxconn, Nvidia Vera Rubin production in the heart of Europe

Foxconn’s presence at VivaTech 2026 marks its symbolic entry onto European soil, illustrated by a concrete demonstration of its industrial mastery. Foxconn no longer positions itself simply as an Asian assembler: with its Build-Operate-Localize (BOL) model, it wants to become an integrated player in Europe, leveraging a comprehensive offering ranging from the production of high-density AI servers to the design of electric vehicles and humanoid robotics.

Specifically, the group intends to work on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 platform and brings forward its capabilities in liquid cooling systems, power distribution and rack-level system integration, all key technical points for the massive and stringent demands of future AI data centers.

More precisely, through its subsidiary Visionbay.ai, a leader in cloud AI and an official partner of Nvidia, Foxconn wants to offer a complete offering that goes from hardware to cloud services, covering the entire stack necessary for a modern AI factory. This dimension pushes Foxconn beyond a simple industrial role, towards an integrated position in the AI ​​value chain. This allows it to strengthen its local presence, relying on its sites in Pardubice, in the Czech Republic, and to respond perfectly to European needs for digital sovereignty.

In this project, Bull brings its know-how in the design, integration and above all in the local industrialization of the Vera Rubin NVL72 platform. By ensuring final assembly and validation of systems in its Angers factory, Bull guarantees European quality control and comprehensive infrastructure management.

Bull’s strength also lies in the software layer that accompanies this hardware, integrating advanced functions for the management, security and optimization of AI infrastructures. This end-to-end approach is key to enabling European customers, whether AI factories, cloud providers or startups, to deploy AI solutions with significant compute volumes, while respecting local constraints of sovereignty, data protection and reduction of technological dependencies.

Once again, Nvidia remains at the center of this initiative. The multinational brings its technological platform, but also the HGX and MGX architectures which form the basis of the new generation high-performance infrastructures. This accelerated hardware and software stack has now become indispensable for highly complex AI workloads, particularly for agentic AI.

Supporting this industrial alliance with Bull and Foxconn allows Jensen Huang’s company to strengthen its position in Europe, while responding to a growing demand for sovereign infrastructure, a major concern for European companies and governments. For Foxconn, it is the realization of its ambition to invest long-term in Europe with a comprehensive offering that combines advanced manufacturing, local deployment and cloud services, reducing historical dependence on logistics chains in Asia. For Bull, it is the opportunity to consolidate its position as a European leader in AI infrastructures, controlling the entire supply chain, from hardware to software, and accelerating the availability of high-performance and secure platforms.