Nvidia has worked with Deutsche Telekom to build what is called the “world's first industrial AI cloud” and continues to push the idea of sovereign AI.
Nvidia calls the collaboration “the world's first industrial AI cloud.” Next year, it will be built in Germany and operated by Deutsche Telekom, and is intended to support industrial applications such as design, engineering, simulation, digital twins, and robots.
The first phase will use 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, with NVIDIA networking and AI software, the company said. Customers can run the Nvidia Cuda-X library, similar to Nvidia Omniverse workloads from Siemens, Cadance and other providers.
“In the age of AI, every manufacturer needs two factories: one to make things and the other to create intelligence to make them,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “By building Europe's first AI infrastructure, we are enabling the region's leading industrial companies to promote simulation-first, AI-driven manufacturing.”
“AI Factory” is designed using its own set of NVIDIA Omanverse digital twin tools as Nvidia calls the data center. “As part of this blueprint, we will use Cadence's Reality Digital Twin platform to simulate and optimize the entire AI factory in a physically accurate virtual environment, enabling our engineering teams to build smarter, more reliable facilities,” the company said in a statement.
Industrial AI for physical AI
Nvidia said Deutsche Telekom's AI cloud will help promote AI development and adoption in Germany among startups, major companies and small and medium-sized enterprises.
“We must now seize the opportunity for artificial intelligence, revolutionize the industry and secure a key position in the global technology competition,” said Timotheushotzge, CEO of Deutsche Telekom. “Our financial success relies on rapid decisions and joint innovation.”
One of the companies using data centers is Neura Robotics, a German manufacturer of cognitive robots. Neura said it will be used, for example, to use Deutsche Telekom Cloud to train AI that can be upgraded with welding and ironing skills.
“Physical AI is the electricity of the future. It supplies power to every machine on the planet,” said David Reger, founder and CEO of Neura Robotics. “Through this initiative, we are helping Europe build a sovereign infrastructure that needs to lead intelligent robotics and control its future.”
Sovereign System
The announcement will be made as part of Huang's European tour. He repeatedly proposes the ideas of sovereign AI not only for economic benefits but also for countries or regions that own their own AI infrastructure to protect their own culture and independence.
“It codifies your culture, your society's intelligence, your common sense, your history – you own your own data,” Huang told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai last year.
According to Reuters, fans appeared in London, Paris and Berlin, unveiling AI infrastructure projects in these regions. In the UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced £1 billion in funding for AI infrastructure. In France, President Emmanuel Macron called AI infrastructure a “fight for sovereignty” and built a local data center following the NVIDIA and Mistral partnership. And now, Germany is planning an “AI factory” that German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz called a “important step” towards digital sovereignty.
The idea of sovereignty is supported by Microsoft through the sovereign cloud.
