Foxconn said on Friday that its one point four billion dollar supercomputing centre, developed in partnership with Nvidia, will be completed in the first half of twenty twenty six. Once operational, it will become Taiwan’s largest advanced GPU cluster. The twenty seven megawatt facility will run on Nvidia’s new Blackwell GB three hundred chips and will also be the first GB three hundred AI data centre in Asia, according to Neo Yao, the chief executive of Visonbay dot ai, which is Foxconn’s new unit for AI supercomputing and cloud services.
At the company’s tech day, attended by partners and clients including Nvidia, OpenAI and Uber, Nvidia vice president Alexis Bjorlin said, “As GPU technology accelerates, building individual facilities may no longer make economic sense.” She added, “Renting compute resources may offer a far better return on investment, enabling flexibility and enabling companies to scale their compute according to both product and business cycles.”
Foxconn, which is the top assembler of Apple’s iPhone, has been increasing its focus beyond electronics and moving into electric vehicles and AI data centres. It is now Nvidia’s main manufacturer of AI racks, which are specialised server racks designed for AI workloads. This shift has positioned the company as a major beneficiary of the global data centre expansion, with cloud service providers investing heavily to grow their AI capabilities. Last week, Foxconn said it expected AI related demand to play a major role in its growth in twenty twenty six.
Foxconn Chairman Young Liu told a common noun in an interview published earlier on Friday that the company planned to invest between two billion and three billion dollars each year in AI. The company’s founder Terry Gou was also present at the tech day, along with Spencer Huang, a product line manager for Nvidia’s leading robotics products and the son of Nvidia founder Jensen Huang. Spencer Huang said Nvidia was working with Foxconn to integrate AI into factories and production lines.
Liu said Foxconn could now manufacture one thousand artificial intelligence racks every week and expected this number to increase next year. He added that the company’s electric vehicle volumes had reached a point where automakers could begin outsourcing more production to Foxconn. Chief Strategy Officer Jun Seki presented the company’s Model A electric vehicle on stage. Liu said the Model A was designed by Japanese engineers and that Foxconn planned to set up a company in Japan to serve customers there. He said the Model A would also be manufactured in Japan in the future.
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