Industrial AI Cloud by Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA
With a billion-dollar project, Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA are laying the foundation for a new era of industrial artificial intelligence in Germany and Europe. Starting in 2026, the world’s first Industrial AI Cloud will offer companies, research institutions, and public organizations a sovereign, high-performance platform for AI applications.
Munich, February 4, 2026, With prominent support from politics, business, and science, the new Industrial AI Cloud Center in Munich’s Tucherpark is officially opened today. Deutsche Telekom and US chip manufacturer NVIDIA have thus set a central milestone for one of Europe’s largest AI infrastructure projects. The partners are investing around one billion euros in the development of a powerful, sovereign AI cloud – financed entirely by the private sector.
The project will increase the available AI computing power in Germany by around 50 percent. More than a thousand high-performance systems with up to 10,000 latest-generation GPUs are currently being installed in a completely renovated data center in Munich. The Industrial AI Cloud is scheduled to go live in the first quarter of 2026 and will then enable companies of all sizes – from start-ups to industrial corporations – to use AI along the entire industrial value chain: from design and simulations to robotics.
Digital sovereignty “Made in Germany”
A key goal of the project is technological and digital sovereignty. Together with SAP, a so-called “Germany Stack” is being created, on which AI solutions for public institutions, security-related areas, and the economy will be developed and operated in the future. SAP is providing the Business Technology Platform, including modern AI applications, while Telekom is providing the physical infrastructure. Data protection, security, and reliability are to meet the highest European standards.
Telekom CEO Tim Höttges speaks of “real AI computing power, made for Germany,” which was brought from idea to launch in just six months. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang sees the project as the beginning of “a new era of industrial transformation” that combines Germany’s traditional strength in engineering with state-of-the-art AI.
Broad industrial ecosystem emerges
In addition to Telekom, NVIDIA, and SAP, a broad partner ecosystem is growing around the Industrial AI Cloud. The companies involved include Siemens, Agile Robots, Wandelbots, Quantum Systems, PhysicsX, and Perplexity. A total of around ten companies are already part of the new sovereign AI ecosystem, with more to follow.
Siemens CEO Roland Busch announce that the company will offer industrial AI software as a service via the new infrastructure in the future. Customers such as Mercedes-Benz and the BMW Group will thus be able to perform highly complex simulations with AI-supported digital twins and significantly accelerate development processes.
Political backing and strategic importance
The German government also attaches great importance to the project. Digital Minister Dr. Karsten Wildberger describes the partnership as proof of Germany’s attractiveness as a location for digital investment. Research Minister Dorothee Bär speaks of an important building block in the German government’s high-tech agenda, which would strengthen competitiveness, value creation, and technological sovereignty.
The Industrial AI Cloud is also one of the first flagship projects of the Made for Germany initiative, in which more than 100 companies have joined forces to promote growth, innovation, and digitalization in Germany.
Europe’s AI hotspot with a signal effect.
With the new AI factory, Germany is positioning itself as the leading location for sovereign industrial AI in Europe. In the future, companies will be able to train their AI models securely, scale them flexibly, and use them productively—without depending on non-European cloud structures. Observers therefore view the project as a strategic signal: Germany wants to be not only a user but also a designer of the next industrial AI wave.
https://www.t-systems.com/de/en/artificial-intelligence/solutions/industrial-ai-cloud
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