{"slug": "deutsche-telekom-taps-nvidia-and-vcluster-labs-for-sovereign-ai-cloud-push", "title": "Deutsche Telekom taps Nvidia and vCluster Labs for sovereign AI cloud push", "summary": "Deutsche Telekom is pairing Nvidia's open-source DSX OS software with vCluster Labs' virtualization layer to give each tenant its own dedicated control plane, part of a sovereign AI cloud push unveiled at Nvidia's GTC event in Berlin. Deutsche Telekom expects to scale vCluster-supported Nvidia GPUs from 500 today to more than 10,000, and already has an unnamed German automotive manufacturer as its first private sovereign AI cloud customer. \"With vCluster orchestrating our Nvidia DSX stack, each customer gets its own private AI cloud on one platform that spans every GPU generation we run,\" said Andreas Falkner, head of industrial AI cloud at Deutsche Telekom.", "body_md": "BERLIN – Deutsche Telekom (DT) is elevating its sovereign AI cloud push by tapping an architecture aimed at spinning up private customer clouds.\n\nIn a partnership unveiled at the European leg of Nvidia’s GTC event, the German telecom operator tapped the GPU giant and San Francisco-based vCluster Labs to create isolated environments for sovereignty-focused customers.\n\nThe team-up sees Nvidia’s open-source [DSX OS software](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-dsx-os-delivers-open-modular-software-for-operating-ai-factories-at-scale/) – which helps users design, simulate, and operate AI infrastructure stacks – paired with vCluster. Nvidia’s software acts as a foundation, with vCluster then providing each of the German giant’s tenants with their own dedicated control plane, whether they’re running Kubernetes, Slurm, or wider inference clusters.\n\nThe trio designed the underlying architecture, with it central to DT’s Nvidia-aided “AI factory” [brought online in February](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/deutsche-telekom-expands-public-cloud-in-line-with-eu-sovereignty-demands/). It’s now set to be expanded across a cloud “that serves German industry at scale.”\n\n“With vCluster orchestrating our Nvidia DSX stack, each customer gets its own private AI cloud on one platform that spans every GPU generation we run,\" Andreas Falkner, head of industrial AI cloud at Deutsche Telekom, explained. \"We value the team's deep expertise with Nvidia hardware and open source software.\"\n\nWhile DT and Nvidia are household names in their respective fields, vCluster is the lesser-known name in this partnership. Formerly known as Loft Labs, it was co-founded by Lukas Gentele, an alum of UC Berkeley's SkyDeck startup accelerator, and SAP alum Fabian Kramm. VCluster is the pair’s second startup, having previously founded DevSpace (otherwise known as Covexo), where they developed open-source tools aimed at streamlining development workloads for engineering teams working on Kubernetes.\n\nTheir efforts at vCluster have already caught the attention of some big-name enterprises, including Adobe, Samsung, and Deloitte, as well as emerging AI infrastructure players like Groq, Firmus, and Nebius.\n\n\"As a German-founded company, we're proud that Deutsche Telekom's Industrial AI Cloud is where Nvidia DSX OS first went into production at scale, automated end-to-end so any German company can get its own sovereign AI cloud. Any Nvidia Cloud Partner can follow the same path,” Gentele said.\n\nFor Deutsche Telekom, meanwhile, it marks the latest in a concerted effort from the carrier giant to position itself as the European cloud bastion standing between U.S. giants and data-wary European users. Milestones include a [team-up with Cloudflare](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/cloudflare-continues-euro-push-with-security-centric-deutsche-telekom-partnership/) to offer its connectivity and security solutions to enterprise customers and a dedicated [AI-driven cloud migration service](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/t-systems-launches-cloud-migration-service-with-a-sprinkle-of-ai/) to entice cloud customers.\n\nDeutsche Telekom already has an unnamed German automotive manufacturer as its first private, sovereign AI cloud customer, with more industrial-focused customers expected to follow. To support that influx, the carrier giant said it expects to scale vCluster-supported Nvidia GPUs from 500 today to more than 10,000, providing a growth path from initial workloads to large-scale AI adoption.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deutsche-telekom-taps-nvidia-and-vcluster-labs-for-sovereign-ai-cloud-push", "canonical_source": "https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/deutsche-telekom-taps-nvidia-and-vcluster-labs-for-sovereign-ai-cloud-push/", "published_at": "2026-10-21 13:30:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-21 13:41:50.002442+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-chips", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Deutsche Telekom", "Nvidia", "vCluster Labs", "Andreas Falkner", "Lukas Gentele", "Nvidia DSX OS", "Cloudflare", "Adobe"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deutsche-telekom-taps-nvidia-and-vcluster-labs-for-sovereign-ai-cloud-push", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deutsche-telekom-taps-nvidia-and-vcluster-labs-for-sovereign-ai-cloud-push.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deutsche-telekom-taps-nvidia-and-vcluster-labs-for-sovereign-ai-cloud-push.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deutsche-telekom-taps-nvidia-and-vcluster-labs-for-sovereign-ai-cloud-push.jsonld"}}