By By Wen-Yee Lee
Publication Date: 2025-11-21 08:28:00
By Wen-Yee Lee
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Foxconn said on Friday that a $1.4 billion supercomputing centre it is building with Nvidia will be ready by the first half of 2026, and when complete will be Taiwan’s largest advanced GPU cluster.
The 27-megawatt data centre will be powered by Nvidia’s new Blackwell GB300 chips and is also set to be Asia’s first GB300 AI data centre, said Neo Yao, CEO of a new unit Foxconn has established for AI supercomputing and cloud operations called Visonbay.ai.
“As GPU technology accelerates, building individual facilities may no longer make economic sense,” said Alexis Bjorlin, a Nvidia vice president, at the contract electronics manufacturer’s tech day, which was attended by Foxconn’s partners and clients including Nvidia, OpenAI and Uber.
“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,” he said.
Foxconn, Apple’s top iPhone assembler, has been expanding beyond electronics into electric vehicles and AI data centres. It is now Nvidia’s main maker of AI racks, which are server racks tailored for AI workloads that house chips, cables and other equipment.
This has made the company a big beneficiary of the data centre boom, as cloud computing firms spend billions of dollars to expand their AI infrastructure and research capacity. Foxconn offered a bullish outlook on…
