# Transforming Telcos into Sovereign AI Infrastructure Providers Accelerate national economic growth, innovation, and productivity with secure AI infrastructure for government, enterprises, startups, and institutions. [Explore Leading Adopters](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/telcos-across-five-continents-are-building-nvidia-powered-sovereign-ai-infrastructure/) **Overview** ## Build, Develop, and Deploy Sovereign AI on Trusted Telecoms Infrastructure Telecom operators are uniquely positioned to build sovereign AI factories—full‑stack AI infrastructure that turns national data and energy into intelligence for governments, enterprises, startups, and institutions. By building sovereign AI on trusted telecom infrastructure, nations can own the production of their own intelligence, keeping data, models, and value creation in-country while driving local innovation, new jobs, and long‑term economic growth. As demand for AI‑native services grows, telecom operators can extend sovereign AI factories into AI grids, adding distributed inference capacity across regional hubs and edge sites so trusted AI runs closer to users and devices. ### NVIDIA and Telecom Leaders Build AI Grids to Optimize Inference on Distributed Networks As AI-native applications scale to more users, agents and devices, the telecommunications network is becoming the next frontier for distributing AI. [Read Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/telecom-ai-grids-inference/) ### Building the AI Grid With NVIDIA: Orchestrating Intelligence Everywhere Learn how AI grids make real-time, multi-modal, and hyper-personalized AI experiences viable at scale. [Read Tech Blog](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/building-the-ai-grid-with-nvidia-orchestrating-intelligence-everywhere/) ## Use Cases ### Discover How Telcos Are Evolving Into AI Factories #### Sovereign AI Factories for National AI Services Provide secure infrastructure for regional AI development and deployment. Telecom operators are building sovereign AI factories that serve as national AI platforms. These platforms combine secure, accelerated infrastructure with localized AI models and developer tools, then surface them as GPU-as-a-service, AI-as-a-service, and turnkey vertical solutions for regulated sectors like government, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing. In doing so, telcos shift from pure connectivity providers to long‑term partners in their countries’ AI‑driven growth. #### AI Grids The connective tissue for generative, agentic, and physical AI. Telecom operators are turning their network sites into AI grids—distributed AI infrastructure that links sovereign AI factories, regional hubs, and edge locations into a unified, orchestrated system. AI grids route each workload to the optimal location for latency, cost, and compliance, allowing AI‑native services to run closer to users and data while honoring data‑residency requirements and keeping sensitive models under local control. [Learn More](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/telecommunications/ai-grid.md) ## News and Events ### Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA Launch Industrial AI Cloud—A ‘New Era’ for Germany’s Industrial Transformation NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges unveil the world’s first AI factory for industry—a sovereign, enterprise-grade industrial AI cloud platform. [Read Blog Post](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/germany-industrial-ai-cloud-launch/) ### Indonesia Makes Strides Toward ‘Golden Vision 2045’ With NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and Partners Leaders from Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Cisco, and NVIDIA discussed the nation’s new AI Center of Excellence that will foster localized AI research, nurture local talent, and drive innovation with NVIDIA Inception startups. [Read Blog Post](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/indonesia-ai-center-of-excellence) ### Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure in Europe for Regional Enterprises Leading telecom companies Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica, and Telenor are developing and expanding sovereign AI factories and edge infrastructure across Europe. This will equip European enterprises to train and deploy customized AI models and agentic AI services. [Read Blog Post](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/european-telcos-ai-factories/) ### Telenor Builds Norway’s First AI Factory, Offering Sustainable and Sovereign Data Processing Telenor joined the NVIDIA AI Podcast to share its journey building Norway’s first AI factory to deliver sustainable and sovereign AI for multiple customers across industries—ultimately helping move society forward. Get insights from Kaaren Hilsen, chief innovation officer and head of Telenor’s AI Factory. [Read Blog](https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-telco-ai-factories/telenor-ai-factory) Previous Next 1. Slide 5 2. Slide 1 3. Slide2 4. Slide 3 > Sahabat-AI is not just a technological achievement; it embodies Indonesia’s vision for a future where digital sovereignty and inclusivity go hand in hand. By creating an AI model that speaks our language and reflects our culture, we empower every Indonesian to harness advanced technology's potential. This initiative is a crucial step towards democratizing AI as a tool for growth, innovation, and empowerment across our diverse society. — Vikram Sinha, President Director and Chief Executive Officer, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison > If telcos start converting network exchanges into compute locations—colocating GPUs and compute at the exchanges—that becomes a goldmine for telcos to enable latency-sensitive AI use cases, such as large language models… Telcos, with their ownership of server networks and fixed networks, can ensure secure transit of data from one source to the other destination. This plays a critical role in governments adopting AI applications at country scale. — Manoj Prasanna Kumar, Head – Enterprise Platforms, Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) > Everyone talks about generative AI, but the gap between expectations and reality is tremendous. A customer must be sure what happens with its data, where it happens, and how it happens. Switzerland, with its many multinational organizations, needs trusted and unique sovereign building blocks for AI. That’s where we step in. We’re developing it together in a reliable and secure manner, with a distinct Swiss flavor, hand in hand with our collaborator partner, NVIDIA. — Christoph Aeschlimann, CEO, Swisscom > At Jio, we’re committed to fueling India’s technology renaissance by democratizing access to cutting-edge technologies, and our collaboration with NVIDIA is a significant step in this direction. Together, we will develop a state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure that’s secure, sustainable, and deeply relevant across India, accelerating the nation’s journey > toward becoming an AI powerhouse. — Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries > Our collaboration with NVIDIA will help our infrastructure achieve a significantly higher performance with the utilization of AI, including optimization of the RAN. We expect it can also help us reduce energy consumption and create a network of interconnected data centers that can be used to share resources and host a range of generative AI applications. — Junichi Miyakawa, President and CEO, SoftBank Corp. Previous Next 1. Quote 1 2. Quote 1 3. Quote 2 4. Quote 3 5. Quote 4 #### Technology ## Building Blocks for AI Factories and Edge Services Learn about accelerated computing systems, a full-stack AI platform, and the NVIDIA Partner Network. ### NVIDIA Accelerated Computing NVIDIA accelerated computing offers systems that address different AI factory providers' needs. [NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-superpod.md) is a turnkey NVIDIA solution for enterprises that want to adopt AI quickly and develop internal use cases. NVIDIA [HGX™](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/hgx.md) and [NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper™ Superchip](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-hopper-superchip.md) systems enable service providers, including telecom operators, to build large multi-tenant AI factory infrastructure with NVIDIA-certified OEMs, ODMs, and partners. ### NVIDIA AI Platform The NVIDIA AI platform powers end-to-end AI workflows, from the data science pipeline to the development and deployment of production generative AI. [NVIDIA NeMo™](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/generative-ai/nemo-framework.md) lets developers build custom large language models (LLMs) from scratch. [NVIDIA AI Foundation models](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/foundation-models.md) enable AI cloud services to quickly customize generative AI. [NVIDIA LaunchPad](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/launchpad.md) offers hands-on labs to get AI practitioners and IT teams quickly started. And NVIDIA® [NGC™](https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/) provides a catalog of GPU-accelerated models and SDKs to infuse AI into applications. NVIDIA AI Factory partners can use this AI platform to create additional services. ### NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) The [NPN ecosystem](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/partners.md) is composed of NVIDIA experts who have the knowledge and skills that can help customers solve their most challenging problems and accelerate their business with NVIDIA solutions. The NPN is structured around partner types and competencies, making it possible to find the perfect NVIDIA partners to address current business needs and achieve success in today's ever-changing market. [Request a Consultation](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/telecommunications/ai-factories/?modal=connect-us) ## Resources ## Take a Deeper Dive Into AI Factories and Edge Services 1. Publications 2. Technologies 3. Community ### NVIDIA HGX Platform The NVIDIA HGX™ AI supercomputing platform brings together the full power of NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA® NVLink™, NVIDIA networking, and fully optimized AI and high-performance computing (HPC) software stacks to provide the highest application performance and drive the fastest time to insights. HGX enables telecom operators to build secure, high-performance AI factory infrastructure. [Explore NVIDIA HGX](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/hgx.md) ### NVIDIA AI Enterprise NVIDIA AI Enterprise is an end-to-end, cloud-native software platform that accelerates data science pipelines and streamlines development and deployment of generative AI applications. This includes NeMo for building, customizing, and deploying generative AI models anywhere. NeMo consists of training and inferencing frameworks, guardrailing toolkits, data curation tools, and pretrained models—offering enterprises an easy, cost-effective, and fast way to adopt generative AI. [Explore NVIDIA AI Enterprise](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/products/ai-enterprise.md) ### Generative AI for Enterprise As the most advanced platform for generative AI, NVIDIA AI meets enterprise application needs at every layer of the stack-including accelerated computing, essential AI software, pretrained models and AI foundries. With NVIDIA AI, enterprises can build, customize, and deploy generative AI models for any application, anywhere. [Explore NVIDIA Generative AI Solutions](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/generative-ai.md) ### Access Tools, Training, and Experts Join our free NVIDIA Developer Program to access the 600+ SDKs, AI models, free training, community forums, tech blogs, and technical resources that can accelerate your work and advance your skills. Build on your existing technical knowledge or learn a new technology by taking advantage of a free self-paced course. 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[Read Blog Post](#) ### Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure in Europe for Regional Enterprises Leading telecom companies Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor are developing and expanding sovereign AI factories and edge infrastructure across Europe. This will equip European enterprises to train and deploy customized AI models and agentic AI services. [Read Blog Post](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/european-telcos-ai-factories/) ### Telenor Builds Norway’s First AI Factory, Offering Sustainable and Sovereign Data Processing Telenor joined the NVIDIA AI Podcast to share its journey building Norway’s first AI factory to deliver sustainable and sovereign AI for multiple customers across industries—ultimately helping move society forward. Get insights from Kaaren Hilsen, chief innovation officer and head of Telenor’s AI Factory. [Read Blog](https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-telco-ai-factories/telenor-ai-factory) ### TELUS to launch Canada’s leading Sovereign AI Factory, Powered by NVIDIA to Drive the Nation’s AI Future TELUS, in collaboration with NVIDIA, announced plans to build Canada’s leading sovereign AI factory. TELUS’ AI factory—powered by 99% renewable energy and following NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) reference architectures and software stack—will help Canada develop domestic AI technologies, streamline operations, increase productivity, protect data, and support businesses. [Read TELUS Announcement](https://www.telus.com/en/about/news-and-events/media-releases/telus-to-launch-canadas-leading-sovereign-ai-factory-powered-by-nividia-to-drive-the-nations-ai-future) ### Cassava to Upgrade Its Data Centers With NVIDIA Supercomputers to Drive Africa’s AI Future Cassava Technologies announced its plans to build Africa’s first AI factory—powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI software using NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) reference architectures. This AI factory will help Africa develop domestic AI technologies, increase productivity, protect data, and support businesses. [Read Cassava Announcement](https://www.cassavatechnologies.com/cassava-to-upgrade-its-data-centres-with-nvidia-supercomputers-to-drive-africas-ai-future/) Previous Next 1. Slide 1 2. Slide2 3. Slide 3 4. Slide 4 5. Slide 5 ### Indonesia Makes Strides Toward ‘Golden Vision 2045’ With NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and Partners Leaders from Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Cisco, and NVIDIA discussed the nation’s new AI Center of Excellence that will foster localized AI research, nurture local talent, and drive innovation with NVIDIA Inception startups. --- [Read Blog Post](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/indonesia-ai-center-of-excellence) ### Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure in Europe for Regional Enterprises Leading telecom companies Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica, and Telenor are developing and expanding sovereign AI factories and edge infrastructure across Europe. This will equip European enterprises to train and deploy customized AI models and agentic AI services. [Read Blog Post](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/european-telcos-ai-factories/) ### Telenor Builds Norway’s First AI Factory, Offering Sustainable and Sovereign Data Processing Telenor joined the NVIDIA AI Podcast to share its journey building Norway’s first AI factory to deliver sustainable and sovereign AI for multiple customers across industries—ultimately helping move society forward. Get insights from Kaaren Hilsen, chief innovation officer and head of Telenor’s AI Factory. [Read Blog](https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-telco-ai-factories/telenor-ai-factory) ### TELUS to launch Canada’s leading Sovereign AI Factory, Powered by NVIDIA to Drive the Nation’s AI Future TELUS, in collaboration with NVIDIA, announced plans to build Canada’s leading sovereign AI factory. TELUS’ AI factory—powered by 99% renewable energy and following NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) reference architectures and software stack—will help Canada develop domestic AI technologies, streamline operations, increase productivity, protect data, and support businesses. [Read TELUS Announcement](https://www.telus.com/en/about/news-and-events/media-releases/telus-to-launch-canadas-leading-sovereign-ai-factory-powered-by-nividia-to-drive-the-nations-ai-future) ### Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA Launch Industrial AI Cloud— a ‘New Era’ for Germany’s Industrial Transformation NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges unveil the world’s first AI factory for industry — a sovereign, enterprise-grade Industrial AI Cloud platform. [Read Blog Post](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/germany-industrial-ai-cloud-launch/) Previous Next 1. Slide 1 2. Slide2 3. Slide 3 4. Slide 4 5. Slide 5