Nvidia is playing fast and loose with its war chest as it looks to build on its momentum as the chief benefactor of the AI boom. <\/p>\n
The company on Tuesday signed<\/a> a \u20ac1 billion ($1.15 billion) partnership with Deutsche Telekom to set up an \u201cAI factory\u201d in Munich that aims to boost Germany\u2019s AI computing power by 50%.<\/p>\n Called the \u201cIndustrial AI Cloud,\u201d the project will use more than 1,000 Nvidia DGX B200 systems and RTX Pro Servers with up to 10,000 Blackwell GPUs to provide AI inferencing and other services to German companies while complying with German data sovereignty laws.<\/p>\n Deutsche Telecom said early partners of the project include Agile Robots, whose bots will be used to install server racks at the facility, and Perplexity, which will use the data center to provide \u201cin-country\u201d AI inferencing to German users and companies. The telco also outlined digital twins and physics-based simulation as use cases for industrial companies.<\/p>\n The telecom company said it would provide the physical infrastructure for the project, while SAP will provide its Business Technology platform and applications. <\/p>\n The partnership comes at a time when the European tech industry has been calling on EU lawmakers<\/a> to reduce their reliance on foreign infrastructure and service providers, and foster adoption of homegrown alternatives. At the same time, tech companies have been criticizing the bloc\u2019s approach to regulating AI<\/a>, arguing that the rules only serve to hold back innovation. <\/p>\n