NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom have partnered to set up Germany’s first industrial artificial intelligence cloud, marking a step in the nation’s push for sovereign AI infrastructure. The initiative, announced during NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s visit to Berlin, is poised to support manufacturing applications, including design, simulation, robotics and digital twins.
NVIDIA describes the AI factory as Germany’s largest AI deployment. Deutsche Telekom will operate the facility, initially hosting 10,000 Blackwell graphic processing units and using NVIDIA’s DGX B200 systems, RTX PRO Servers, networking platforms and AI software. Customers will have access to NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and NVIDIA RTX- and Omniverse-optimized workloads from software providers such as Siemens, Cadence and Rescale.
“In the era of AI, every manufacturer needs two factories: one for making things and one for creating the intelligence that powers them,” Huang said in remarks about the partnership. “By building Europe’s first industrial AI infrastructure, we’re enabling the region’s leading industrial companies to advance simulation-first, AI-driven manufacturing.”
The initiative is part of a larger AI gigafactory program backed by the European Union and Germany and set to go online in 2027. This program seeks to expand access to high-performance computing across academia, startups and enterprises through new and upgraded data centers.
The partnership is the latest in NVIDIA’s AI hub projects in the region. On Friday, it announced plans to establish a $500 million facility in Armenia in partnership with U.S.-Armenian AI cloud firm Firebird. That project will also deploy NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs and aims to provide over 100 megawatts of capacity, supporting Armenia’s growing tech industry.