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The Industrial AI Cloud, powered by up to 10,000 Nvidia GPUs, will allow manufacturers, automakers, and robotics firms to deploy AI-driven digital twins, predictive maintenance, and large-scale simulation workloads
In sum – what to know:
Europe’s first Industrial AI Cloud debuts – Deutsche Telekom and Nvidia launch a sovereign, enterprise-grade platform to power AI innovation across German industries.
Massive compute power and sovereignty – The platform runs on up to 10,000 Nvidia GPUs in German data centers, combining high performance with compliance and security.
Ecosystem of industrial leaders – SAP, Siemens, Mercedes-Benz, and others will leverage the cloud for AI-driven digital twins, robotics, and large-scale simulations.
German carrier Deutsche Telekom and U.S. AI company Nvidia have unveiled what it claims to be the world’s first Industrial AI Cloud, a sovereign, enterprise-grade platform aimed at accelerating Germany’s industrial transformation, the latter said in a release.
Scheduled to go live in early 2026, the cloud-based platform combines Deutsche Telekom’s infrastructure expertise with Nvidia’s hardware — including DGX B200 systems and RTX PRO Servers — as well as software including Nvidia AI Enterprise and Nvidia Omniverse.
“This is a new kind of factory — a factory for intelligence,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, describing the platform as the engine of Germany’s Industry 4.0. The Industrial AI Cloud, powered by up to 10,000 Nvidia GPUs, will allow manufacturers, automakers, and robotics firms to deploy AI-driven digital twins, predictive maintenance, and large-scale simulation workloads securely within German data centers.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges emphasized that the platform will help Europe “build its own AI stack,” supporting sovereign industrial development and competitiveness. Major partners including SAP, Siemens, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Agile Robots have joined the ecosystem, integrating their systems and data for faster development cycles and greater automation.
Last month, Bloomberg reported that Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom were planning to build a €1 billion data center in Germany as part of a broader initiative to expand AI infrastructure across Europe.
Both companies will jointly fund the project, according to the report, which cited people familiar with the plans. German software giant SAP will be a customer of the new facility, the report added.
The initiative forms part of the German government’s plan to boost large-scale data center construction, seen as vital to the country’s digital sovereignty.
Germany’s AI strategy includes state subsidies covering up to 35% of infrastructure costs, with the private sector expected to finance the rest. The country hopes to secure up to 100,000 GPUs for AI research and industrial deployment in the coming years.
