In Berlin on Tuesday, Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA unveiled the world’s first Industrial AI Cloud, a sovereign, enterprise-grade platform set to go live in early 2026.
The partnership brings together Deutsche Telekom’s trusted infrastructure and operations and NVIDIA AI and Omniverse digital twin platforms to power the AI era of Germany’s industrial transformation.
“We have to build a stack here in Germany which is enabling our industry to participate in this next-generation evolution of industrialization,” Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges said.
With this launch, Europe gains a new engine for industrial innovation — based in Germany — to accelerate sovereign AI development and deployment for enterprises and industries.
“These computers, are the modern versions of factories,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said. “These are factories, just like factories of cars and all the industrial factories of Germany, these are factories of intelligence.”
At Berlin’s historic Gasometer, federal ministers, technology leaders and partners came together to kick off Germany’s push for industrial AI — advancing the “Made for Germany” initiative to boost the country’s competitiveness.
“Manufacturing is extremely difficult… the work that is done here in Germany is done at such an extraordinary scale and precision, we have to have incredibly good AI,” Huang said. “Germany has always been the engine of industry — a nation defined by engineering artistry and precision.”
It’s AI made for Europe — secure, compliant and ready to accelerate everything from digital twins to predictive maintenance.
A Sovereign Foundation for the AI Age
This isn’t just a cloud — it’s a new kind of factory, producing digital intelligence to power Germany’s industries.
“In the future, in industry 4.0, with AI, every company that’s a manufacturing company will have two factories, the factory for the car, and the factory for the AI that drives the car,” Huang said.
Industrial AI Cloud by Deutsche Telekom is Europe’s first large-scale, sovereign AI platform delivering enterprise-grade performance.
It opens up a direct path to sovereign AI — secure, flexible and ready to help Europe compete and innovate.
The platform harnesses state-of-the-art NVIDIA hardware — including DGX B200 systems and RTX PRO Servers — as well as software including NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse, fully integrated into Deutsche Telekom’s cloud and network ecosystem.
Built in German data centers and powered by up to 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs, the Industrial AI Cloud gives manufacturers, automakers, robotics, healthcare, energy and pharma leaders the compute muscles they need.
Starting in early 2026, enterprises will gain early access to GPU capacity at scale, with contracts designed for speed and flexibility.
This infrastructure will enable industry-specific AI solutions — from digital twins and robotics, powered by platforms like NVIDIA Isaac and Omniverse, to predictive maintenance and molecular simulation at scale, including the training of next-generation foundation models using real production data.
“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, and I think it’s going to be the beginning of a new phase of growth and innovation for Germany.”
Industry Leaders Join the Ecosystem
Throughout the event, Germany’s leaders showed how quickly the Industrial AI Cloud ecosystem is taking shape.
- Höttges and Huang discussed the rationale for the partnership and its long-term ambitions for “Industrial AI made in Europe.”With Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA providing the AI infrastructure, SAP CEO Christian Klein explained that SAP acts as the bridge between technology and industry, and that the SAP Business Technology Platform is the software‑defined backbone on which applications can be developed and operated securely, at scale and with openness.Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization Karsten Wildberger and Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space Dorothee Bär highlighted the Industrial AI Cloud’s political relevance, positioning it as the first tangible outcome of the “Made for Germany” initiative and a foundational step in transforming the German economy.Major partners, including Christian Sewing, co-initiator of the “Made for Germany” initiative, emphasized the platform’s role in reshaping European manufacturing and the broader industry, and gave credit to one of the first flagship projects to be launched after the initiative was announced earlier this year.Siemens will use the cloud platform to accelerate industrial AI adoption, including for its own services and to offer AI-powered solutions to customers and partners. Automakers like Mercedes-Benz and BMW will use the Industrial AI Cloud to run complex simulations with AI-driven digital twins, dramatically speeding up vehicle development, according to Siemens.
Live demos showcased practical applications of the technology — customers like Agile Robots’ H10-W waved from the stage, and Wandelbots showed how AI-powered robotics are already working on factory floors.
Agile Robots will use the Industrial AI cloud as a highly scalable and efficient computing infrastructure capable of generating and curating vast, complex datasets. By incorporating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, they’ll expand their efforts to train, test and validate robotic foundation models for entire fleets of robots.
Wandelbots NOVA will run on the Industrial AI cloud to modernize factories, using digital twins and simulation to bring AI-driven testing, training, optimization and deployment to factory floors.
