Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA launch sovereign Industrial AI Cloud for German manufacturers
Deutsche Telekom · Germany
Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA unveiled the Industrial AI Cloud, a sovereign, enterprise-grade AI platform built in German data centers with up to 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs (including DGX B200 systems and RTX PRO Servers), NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse, going live in early 2026. Siemens will use the platform to accelerate industrial AI adoption; Mercedes-Benz and BMW will run AI-driven digital twin simulations for vehicle development; Agile Robots will train and validate robotic foundation models; and Wandelbots NOVA will run digital-twin-based testing and deployment on factory floors.
Overview
Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA unveiled the Industrial AI Cloud, a sovereign, enterprise-grade AI platform built in German data centers with up to 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs (including DGX B200 systems and RTX PRO Servers), NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse, going live in early 2026. Siemens will use the platform to accelerate industrial AI adoption; Mercedes-Benz and BMW will run AI-driven digital twin simulations for vehicle development; Agile Robots will train and validate robotic foundation models; and Wandelbots NOVA will run digital-twin-based testing and deployment on factory floors.
The challenge
Germany needed a sovereign, enterprise-grade AI infrastructure stack, built and controlled domestically, to enable its industry to participate in the next generation of industrialization and to help Europe compete in AI development and deployment.
The solution
Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA unveiled the Industrial AI Cloud, a sovereign, enterprise-grade platform built in German data centers, combining Deutsche Telekom's infrastructure and operations with NVIDIA AI and Omniverse digital twin platforms. The platform runs on up to 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including DGX B200 systems and RTX PRO Servers, plus NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse software, fully integrated into Deutsche Telekom's cloud and network ecosystem, with the SAP Business Technology Platform serving as the software-defined backbone on which applications can be developed and operated securely and at scale. Starting in early 2026, enterprises will gain early access to GPU capacity at scale under contracts designed for speed and flexibility.
Reported business value
Siemens will use the platform to accelerate industrial AI adoption for its own services and to offer AI-powered solutions to customers and partners; Mercedes-Benz and BMW will use it to run complex AI-driven digital twin simulations, speeding up vehicle development; Agile Robots will use it as scalable compute to generate and curate datasets and to train, test and validate robotic foundation models for fleets of robots; and Wandelbots NOVA will run on it to bring AI-driven testing, training, optimisation and deployment to factory floors via digital twins and simulation.
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