# Germany Signs Industrial AI Declaration With Nvidia, Committing Several Hundred Million Euros to Compute and Model Training

About a dozen German firms including Siemens, Audi and Black Forest Labs will take part, and Spain's Barcelona Supercomputing Center has opened a parallel program giving startups sovereign compute.

- Published: 2026-10-21T06:08:03.066Z
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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, held in the Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, to discuss Germany's industrial AI plans. The federal gover…

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