NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom are building the world’s first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. Based in Germany, the AI factory will be operated by Deutsche Telekom to enable European manufacturers to accelerate manufacturing applications including design, engineering, simulation, industrial digital twins and robotics.

The new AI factory will feature 10,000 GPUs, including through NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers. Its purpose is to enable Europe’s industrial leaders to accelerate every manufacturing application, from design, engineering and simulation to factory digital twins and robotics.

“Europe’s technological future needs a sprint, not a stroll,” said Timotheus Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG. “We must seize the opportunities of artificial intelligence now, revolutionize our industry and secure a leading position in the global technology competition. Our economic success depends on quick decisions and collaborative innovations.”

“In the era of AI, every manufacturer needs two factories: one for making things, and one for creating the intelligence that powers them,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “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 AI factory will be built following the framework highlighted in the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory design and operations. As part of this blueprint, Cadence’s Reality Digital Twin Platform will be used to simulate and optimise the entire AI factory in a physically accurate virtual environment, enabling the engineering teams to build a smarter, more reliable facility.

The investment aims to accelerate AI development and adoption for European manufacturers in anticipation of AI gigafactories in Europe.