# Germany and Nvidia sign letter of intent to fund industrial AI compute in Deutsche Telekom's Blackwell cloud

Berlin expects to commit funding in the high hundreds of millions of euros, and Nvidia named four German startups as targets within a European investment pledge of nearly $10 billion.

- Published: 2026-10-20T06:12:48.347Z
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- Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/germany-wants-to-lead-the-world-in-industrial-ai-how-nvidia-will-help/), [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/spain-startups-barcelona-supercomputing-center/)

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang appeared together at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin on October 19 to announce cooperation on industrial AI. Under a letter of intent, Nvidia supplies chips, so…

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