Foxconn, which is also the world’s largest AI server maker, said the Lordstown facility will become an AI data center in the future and that Foxconn will play an active and important role in building its infrastructure.
“The purpose is to provide greater flexibility and revitalize assets in Lordstown to focus on the company’s AI data center business strategy, especially to help our clients to speed up the building of AI servers and AI data centers in the U.S.,” a Foxconn spokesperson told Nikkei Asia.
Foxconn is the world’s largest AI server maker? And they even operate data centres? This is news to me.
Foxconn is the world’s largest AI server maker?
Yes, since they produce the most chips for NVIDIA:
In a report on the AI supply chain in March, Morgan Stanley said Taiwanese vendors accounted for more than 70 percent of Nvidia’s global GPU server shipments in 2023, with the Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) accounting for 24 percent of the total, Inventec 22 percent, Quanta Computer 15 percent, Wistron 5 percent, Gigabyte 2 percent, and Wiwynn 1 percent.
https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=3692
And they even operate data centres?
They don’t