Deutsche Telekom Industrial AI Cloud: an NVIDIA-based AI factory in Munich

German and European manufacturers, research groups and public bodies want GPU capacity for simulation, robotics and model training that is operated in Germany under European control. Before the opening, Telekom said it expected the site to raise Germany's AI computing power by around 50 percent.¹

Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA announced the Industrial AI Cloud on 4 November 2025 in Berlin, describing a one-billion-euro partnership with more than 1,000 NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and up to 10,000 Blackwell GPUs. NVIDIA names NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Omniverse as software platforms offered on it, plus Isaac for robotics.

The site went into operation on 4 February 2026 in a former bank data center of about 10,700 square meters in Munich's Tucherpark, renovated with data center partner Polarise in about six months. Telekom gives a capacity of up to 0.5 exaFLOPS. SAP provides its Business Technology Platform for a sovereign software stack, T-Systems runs the infrastructure and platform layer, and Siemens is integrating its Simcenter simulation software.

Named users include Agile Robots (robot foundation models), PhysicsX (engineering simulation) and the SOOFI research project, which plans an open-source language model of about 100 billion parameters. Telekom says the site runs on renewable energy, cools with water from the nearby Eisbach and will supply waste heat to the district.¹²³

What others can learn: a telecom operator can reuse an existing data center building, partner for the renovation and sell GPU capacity by the job to industrial customers, from pilots to production. Pairing hardware with a named software stack (SAP, Siemens simulation, NVIDIA platforms) helps industrial users start. Limits: this is a national-scale project backed by Telekom, NVIDIA and SAP; the utilization and compute figures are Telekom's own, and the 50 percent figure is an expectation. The cited sources give no utilization figures after opening and no customer results. Many companies may find renting capacity from a provider like this simpler than building their own.