NVIDIA announced strategic collaborations with leading European telecommunications providers — Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica, and Telenor — to build secure, sustainable AI infrastructure that enables regional enterprises to develop and deploy customized generative and agentic AI applications.
As AI transforms global industries, telecommunications companies are stepping forward as critical enablers of sovereign AI solutions. Eighteen telco-led AI factories powered by NVIDIA now span five continents, providing secure, geographically distributed compute infrastructure to meet the surging demand for intelligent systems.
Empowering Europe’s AI Future
These new collaborations aim to equip European enterprises across sectors with access to accelerated computing resources and full-stack AI capabilities, unlocking the power of agentic AI while preserving data sovereignty and security.
Telco Leaders Driving AI Innovation
Orange Business, a division of Orange Group, has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program to support enterprise-grade AI deployment via its Live Intelligence platform, powered by the Cloud Avenue platform and NVIDIA infrastructure. Currently, over 73,000 Orange employees use AI to automate processes and enhance productivity across Europe and Africa.
Telenor is expanding Norway’s first sovereign AI infrastructure with a new AI data center powered entirely by renewable energy. This effort supports national AI adoption in sectors like public services and language translation. Telenor also integrated NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to accelerate both internal innovation and customer-facing AI applications.
Swisscom has launched GenAI Studio and the AI Work Hub, enabling Swiss enterprises to develop and scale agentic AI agents securely. These services are hosted on Swisscom’s sovereign AI factory, built on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, allowing fast capacity scaling.
Telefónica is piloting distributed edge AI infrastructure across Spain with hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs to enable localized, low-latency AI services. This includes integration with NVIDIA NIM microservices and AI Enterprise software for government, finance, and other critical sectors.
Fastweb has developed MIIA, an Italian language model supporting generative AI, trained and deployed on its NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer.
Accelerating the Path to AI-Native 6G
Over 200 organizations across 30+ countries are using the NVIDIA 6G Research Portfolio to shape AI-native wireless networks. Projects include:
University of Oulu using digital twin technology for AI-based wireless channel estimation.
ETH Zurich developing novel architectures like DUIDD for data-optimized AI-native networks.
Fraunhofer HHI (Germany) researching neuromorphic wireless cognition for robotics.
OpenAirInterface (France) collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate AI across open RAN stacks.
University of Leeds (U.K.) designing agentic architectures for intelligent orchestration.
These research efforts are backed by European initiatives like the 6G SNS and the 6G Flagship Project, with institutions using NVIDIA AI Aerial, Sionna, and CUDA-X to accelerate development.
Launching the First AI Blueprint for Telecom Network Configuration
NVIDIA also introduced its first AI Blueprint for Telco Network Configuration, an agentic AI solution that automates network optimization tasks using customized large language models trained on 5G data.
Built with BubbleRAN 5G solutions and integrated into the BubbleRAN O-RAN platform, the blueprint enables AI agents to autonomously adjust network parameters in real time — optimizing tradeoffs such as speed vs. interference and energy efficiency vs. utilization.
Telenor is the first to adopt this blueprint as part of its autonomous network transformation strategy.
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA
Telecom providers are uniquely positioned to deliver AI infrastructure due to their connectivity networks and geographic reach. By partnering with NVIDIA, European telcos are evolving from connectivity providers to sovereign AI providers.
Knut Fjellheim, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Telenor Maritime
The blueprint is helping us address configuration challenges and enhance service quality during network installation.