EU Awards €387.8M Contract for LUMIAI AI Supercomputer in Finland

The European Union has awarded a €387.8 million contract to French state-owned Bull to build LUMIAI, a next-generation AI supercomputer to be installed in Kajaani, Finland. The system, expected to be operational in the second half of 2027, is designed to provide ten times the AI capacity and nearly double the high-performance computing capability of the existing LUMI supercomputer. The procurement contract was signed by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, the EU's supercomputing body, with Bull selected to build the sixth machine under its AI Factories programme. The cost will be shared equally between EuroHPC and the LUMI AI Factory consortium, which includes Finland, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, and Poland. The system will be hosted at the CSC IT Center for Science data center in the Renforsin Ranta business park in Kajaani. LUMIAI will be powered by AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and 6th Gen AMD EPYC 256-core processors. Bull will integrate its own BXI interconnect and patented warm-water direct liquid cooling technology, with storage provided by IBM and networking by Nokia.