Taiwan's Wistron officially opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility on July 21, a $700 million, 324,000 square foot AI server factory in Fort Worth, Texas that will assemble NVIDIA-based rack-scale systems for American hyperscalers.
Inside The D1 Facility
The plant, branded D1 AI Smart Factory, will build NVIDIA reference systems for Wistron's hyperscaler customers and is Wistron's first onshore production capacity outside Asia. The $700 million commitment underlines how AI factory buildout has decoupled from historic ODM footprint decisions — hyperscalers now want capacity closer to their U.S. data centre construction pipelines to shorten lead times on liquid-cooled systems.
Why NVIDIA Is Anchoring In Texas
Fort Worth joins a growing constellation of NVIDIA-linked assembly sites in Texas, including the CoreWeave-connected build-outs and Foxconn's Houston expansion. NVIDIA has been steering ODMs toward regional manufacturing to hedge against tariff and export-control shocks, aligning with the wider onshoring push already visible in TSMC's $100B Arizona expansion and semiconductor foundry deals such as Intel's Panther Lake ramp.
What Wistron Gains
The Fort Worth build gives Wistron proximity to key U.S. neocloud accounts and a foothold to bid on future federal AI infrastructure work. It also cushions the company against tariff volatility that has stalked cross-strait server exports over the last two years.
Reporting based on coverage from GuruFocus, Wistron and NVIDIA.