The AI chip and telecommunications giants have unveiled what they say is the world’s first Industrial AI Cloud, set to go live early next year.
Unveiled this week in Berlin, the cloud platform will operate from a refurbished Munich data center equipped with up to 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, with SAP set to supply the software stack, according to Deutsche Telekom.
The partners said the deal will see Deutsche Telekom’s infrastructure integrated with Nvidia’s AI and Omniverse digital twin platforms to “power the AI era” of Germany’s industrial transformation.
In an announcement on the launch, the companies stated that the platform will serve as a sovereign, scalable foundation for enterprises to deploy and develop AI at scale.
“These computers are the modern versions of factories,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said. “These are factories, just like factories of cars and all the industrial factories of Germany. These are factories of intelligence.”
From early 2026, enterprises will gain access to large-scale GPU capacity. This, Nvidia said, will support the development of industry-specific AI systems such as digital twins, robotics, predictive maintenance, and molecular simulation, as well as the training of next-generation foundation models on real production data.
The platform is also expected to support AI-powered robotics to automate factories and develop large language models.
Among the first users is Agile Robots, whose systems are already helping to build the Munich facility. Perplexity will also use the infrastructure to deliver in-country AI inferencing for German users and enterprises.
The launch comes as Europe seeks to reduce dependence on foreign infrastructure providers and strengthen its AI sovereignty, as nations such as the U.S. and China ramp up their already significant AI investments.
In pursuit of this, earlier this year, the EU committed 200 billion euros, or about $2.3 billion, to develop “AI gigafactories” focused on industrial and mission-critical applications.
“This is the next industrial revolution in combination with your industries,” Huang said. “[It] will turbocharge Industry 4.0. It’s going to be enormously important. It’s going to be the beginning of a new phase of growth and innovation for Germany.”