Bull and Foxconn Produce NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 in Europe
As part of a recently announced collaboration, Bull, a leading enterprise in advanced computing and AI, and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (Foxconn), the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and leading technology solutions provider, today announced their first strategic milestone: producing key components in Europe and commercializing them under the Bull brand.
This announcement is directly based on the partnership announced on June 1, 2026. The collaboration combines Bull’s expertise in AI system design and deployment with Foxconn’s industrial scale and supply chain capabilities, aiming to manufacture AI infrastructure for AI factories and AI cloud providers from Europe.
With the introduction of NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, this collaboration has entered the execution phase, bringing industrial vision to life through the production of advanced AI systems in Europe and paving the way for future support of broader technical architectures.
European manufacturing, local integration
The system will be manufactured and undergo preliminary testing at Foxconn’s factory in the Czech Republic, followed by assembly, integration, and full verification at Bull’s facility in Angers, France. These AI servers and data centers are specifically designed for the most demanding AI workloads of the agent-based AI era, meeting the needs of emerging cloud providers, cloud service providers, and next-generation AI factories across Europe and other regions.
Software capabilities on top of hardware
Beyond hardware, the ability to manage and operate AI infrastructure end-to-end is becoming increasingly crucial. In this context, Bull offers an AI software layer, encompassing embedded AI use cases and data science expertise, enabling customers to better control the deployment, security, and optimization of systems—extending the “European Manufacturing” model from production to operations.
Strengthening the European AI supply chain
These developments collectively reinforce the ambition behind the Bull Foxconn collaboration: to build a more resilient and efficient AI supply chain in Europe, with competitive time to market, while providing scalable high-performance infrastructure for the region’s most demanding AI workloads.
Bull CEO Emmanuel Le Roux stated, “Bull’s collaboration with Foxconn marks a turning point in the development of AI infrastructure manufacturing capabilities in Europe, bringing together system design, industrialization, and supply chain execution across France and the Czech Republic. ‘Made in Europe’ serves Bull’s global AI ambition, and this initiative has now taken another step forward with the introduction of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, transforming the vision into concrete solutions for the deployment of next-generation AI.”
Foxconn Vice President James Wu said, “Foxconn is proud to collaborate with Bull and NVIDIA to lay the foundation for AI factories, sovereign AI, and next-generation data center infrastructure in Europe. By combining Bull’s leadership in European supercomputing, NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform, and Foxconn’s global manufacturing and deployment capabilities, we are creating an ecosystem that can accelerate European AI ambitions and enhance their long-term technological competitiveness.”
Serge Palaric, Vice President of NVIDIA Europe, Middle East, and Africa Global Cloud Service Providers and Independent Software Developers Alliance, said, “Bull and Foxconn’s collaboration based on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 is the deep industrial commitment needed to support the next chapter of AI in Europe. By establishing high-performance AI manufacturing bases in France and the Czech Republic, this collaboration provides European enterprises, AI factories, and cloud providers with the world’s most advanced computing power – obtained in their own way, at scale, and locally in Europe. NVIDIA is proud to support this ambition.”
Arnaud Bertrand, Chief Technology Officer of Outscale, stated, “This is a decisive step for Europe’s digital and industrial sovereignty. Bull and Foxconn have made NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 a reality in Europe – with key capabilities rooted in France – setting a new benchmark for a resilient end-to-end European AI supply chain, ready to support next-generation cloud and AI services at any time.”
Damien Lucas, CEO of Scaleway, said: “At Scaleway, we have two priorities: to ensure that we are not affected by non European extraterritorial laws and to limit technology dependence. Thanks to this collaboration, Bull has brought a more European style market alternative solution for the latest generation of AI servers.”