NVIDIA is building Europe’s first industrial AI cloud for manufacturers, launching a massive AI factory in Germany with 10,000 GPUs. This setup includes NVIDIA DGX B200 and RTX PRO Servers, targeting European industrial leaders like BMW, Maserati, and Mercedes-Benz.
The AI factory will support everything from design and simulation to factory digital twins and robotics running NVIDIA CUDA-X and Omniverse workloads from software leaders like Siemens, Ansys, and Cadence. The facility follows the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory design, leveraging Cadence’s Reality Digital Twin Platform for virtual optimization.
“In the era of AI, every manufacturer needs two factories: one for making things, and one for creating the intelligence that powers them,” Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, stated.
“By building Europe’s first industrial AI infrastructure, we’re enabling the region’s leading industrial companies to advance simulation-first, AI-driven manufacturing.”
Ansys, Siemens, and Cadence are accelerating their software with NVIDIA AI-physics tech and Grace Blackwell GPUs. Volvo used Ansys Fluent on Blackwell GPUs to speed up fluid simulations 2.5x compared to huge CPU setups. Leonardo is also running helicopter simulations on NVIDIA GPUs. Cadence launched the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer combined with NVIDIA tech to boost AI-accelerated simulation, helping companies like Toulouse’s Ascendance slash run times by 20x.
Schaeffler is using NVIDIA’s physical AI stack and Omniverse for factory planning and robotic automation across over 100 plants, partnering with Microsoft Azure and Wandelbots on multi-robot simulation. BMW uses digital twins powered by Omniverse to optimize production and speed up vehicle aerodynamics simulations 30x.
Mercedes-Benz is cutting factory downtime and boosting efficiency with Omniverse virtual assembly line design.
Watch the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote and explore GTC Paris sessions for more details.
