EuroHPC Awards Bull €387.8M LUMI-AI Contract in Finland, Powered by AMD MI430X, Live H2 2027

EuroHPC JU signed a €387.8M procurement contract on Aug 31 with Atos-owned Bull to build LUMI-AI at CSC's Kajaani data center in Finland, powered by AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and 6th-gen EPYC 256-core CPUs, targeting roughly 10x the AI capacity and 2x the HPC throughput of current LUMI. Deployment is slated for the second half of 2027 with funding split evenly between EuroHPC and the LUMI AI Factory consortium, and waste heat recycled into the local district heating network.