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Data centre will be Asia's first GB300 AI data centre

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The iPone assembler has been moving into AI and EVs

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Company now has ability to make 1,000 AI racks a week

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Foxconn also showcases Model A EV at tech event

(Adds details on Model A EV, Nvidia ( NVDA ) partnership)

By Wen-Yee Lee

TAIPEI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Foxconn said on

Friday that a $1.4 billion supercomputing centre it is building

with Nvidia ( NVDA ) 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 ( NVDA ) 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 ( NVDA ) vice president, at the contract electronics

manufacturer's tech day, which was attended by Foxconn's

partners and clients including Nvidia ( NVDA ), 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 ( AAPL ) top iPhone assembler, has been

expanding beyond electronics into electric vehicles and AI data

centres. It is now Nvidia's ( NVDA ) 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 AI-related demand last week, saying

it would be a big driver of 2026 growth.

Foxconn Chairman Young Liu told Reuters in an interview

published earlier on Friday before the event that Foxconn would

invest $2 billion to $3 billion a year in AI.

Foxconn's founder, Terry Gou, also made an appearance at the

tech day as did Spencer Huang, a product line manager at

Nvidia's ( NVDA ) leading robotics product who is also the son of Nvidia ( NVDA )

founder Jensen Huang. Huang said that Nvidia ( NVDA ) was working with

Foxconn to bring AI to factories and manufacturing lines.

Liu said the company now had the capability to manufacture

1,000 artificial intelligence racks per week, and it expected

that rate to increase next year.

He also said the company's EV volumes were just at about the

level where automakers could outsource more production to

Foxconn and Chief Strategy Officer Jun Seki showcased the

company's "Model A" electric vehicle on stage.

Liu said that the Model A was designed by Japanese engineers

and that Foxconn planned to eventually set up a company there to

serve Japanese customers. The Model A will eventually be made in

Japan too, he said.