This article was published on August 31, 2026 LUMI-AI goes to Kajaani in 2027, paid for by six countries and EuroHPC, and built by the company France bought from Atos in March. An architect’s visualisation of the LUMI-AI data centre in Kajaani, Finland. Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a €387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by Bull, the French supercomputer maker that the French state bought outright five months ago. The order is the sixth AI Factory procurement contract signed by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, the body coordinating Europe’s publicly funded supercomputing infrastructure. The cost is being split evenly between EuroHPC and the LUMI AI Factory consortium, which is where the political logic behind the project becomes clearer. Finland, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Norway and Poland are all contributing to a machine that will sit on Finnish soil but be available to researchers and companies across the consortium. In practical terms, the new system is expected to deliver roughly ten times the AI capacity of the existing LUMI supercomputer, while nearly doubling its convent
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This article was published on August 31, 2026 LUMI-AI goes to Kajaani in 2027, paid for by six countries and EuroHPC, and built by the company France bought from Atos in March. An architect’s visualisation of the LUMI-AI data centre in…
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