Something for the weekend - what a history lesson in what Bull's pedigree says about Europe's sovereignty aspirations
Lots of people were on hand to unpack the history and future of European digital sovereignty at Bull’s grand opening of Europe’s only factory for making supercomputers, AI-factories, and high-performance enterprise systems. An interesting plot twist: the company's predecessor sprang to life, funded by a French paper maker hoping to open the market IBM had locked them out of. Almost a hundred years later, fortunes and ambitions for European digital sovereignty have been bolstered by its largest contract to date to install the Lumi AI factory in a former paper mill in Finland.
Along the way, fortunes and prospects have waxed and waned because of cycles of overinvestment in the industry, fierce competition from an American rival, an acquisition by an American company, consolidation, and nationalization twice. Since many of these themes seem to be playing up in the latest AI hype, I was curious to sit down with Pierre...
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