AI factories are producing intelligence at unprecedented scale, showing massive potential to fuel economic growth and innovation. But to tap that intelligence, countries need secure, sovereign AI infrastructure.
As trusted providers of critical connectivity infrastructure, forming the backbone of the modern digital world, telecommunications providers are uniquely positioned to deliver AI services due to their extensive infrastructure and geographic reach. Eighteen telco-led AI factories powered by NVIDIA now span five continents.
At NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech, NVIDIA today announced collaborations with leading telecommunications companies Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor to develop and expand sovereign AI factories and edge infrastructure across Europe. This will equip European enterprises across industries with secure, accelerated computing infrastructure to train and deploy customized AI models and agentic AI services.
NVIDIA’s full-stack technologies allow telco operators to go beyond traditional connectivity services to AI as a service, driving generative and agentic AI adoption and empowering entire nations to build localized models with secure sovereign AI infrastructure.
Orange Business Enables Trusted AI Solutions in Europe
Orange Business, the enterprise division of the Orange Group, one of Europe’s leading telco operators, has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program to accelerate the development of enterprise-grade agentic AI, including its innovative Live Intelligence platform, which empowers companies of all sizes to securely deploy generative AI at scale. Those AI solutions tap into Orange Business Cloud Avenue platform, built on high-performance NVIDIA infrastructure.
This will allow enterprises across Europe to access AI infrastructure, train custom AI models and deploy secure generative AI applications through Orange Business’ Live Intelligence platform — as well as introduce new revenue streams for telcos, transforming employee, customer and operational experiences.
Orange has also applied AI to its own operations, with 73,000 employees now regularly using the solution to streamline tasks, develop software, automate support procedures and enhance decision-making. These cases will benefit from Orange’s sovereign AI infrastructure — supporting employees in France, as well as across Europe and Africa, and handling over 30,000 requests daily.
Telenor Pioneers Secure and Sustainable AI for Norway
Building on its creation of Norway’s first sovereign AI infrastructure, Telenor today announced it is significantly expanding capacity to meet rising demand from both internal teams and external customers. With plans to add a new AI data center that will run entirely on renewable energy and contribute surplus energy back to the grid, Telenor is helping Norway advance its mission of secure, sovereign and sustainable AI development.
Since its launch, Telenor’s AI infrastructure has helped drive AI adoption across Norway by powering digital services for the public sector, industrial automation and local language models. This includes hosting BabelSpeak, an AI-driven translation tool developed by Capgemini that offers near-real-time, voice-to-voice multilingual translation capabilities in nearly 100 languages and is now being piloted by Norwegian Red Cross. Capgemini has been a key partner for Telenor to build Norway’s first sovereign and secure AI cloud service in collaboration with NVIDIA.
In addition, Telenor is integrating NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to accelerate enterprise adoption and deployment of generative and agentic AI applications, as well as its own internal innovation efforts, such as in network automation.
“Telenor is leading the way in AI adoption in the telecom industry, pioneering innovation in nearly every aspect of the business,” said Cathal Kennedy, acting group chief technology officer of Telenor. “By combining robust infrastructure with advanced AI capabilities, we’re setting new standards for efficiency and sustainability, and ensuring production of intelligence remains in Norway.”
Swiss AI Platform Powers Enterprises
Swisscom recently announced GenAI Studio — a new service built on its Swiss AI Platform that allows enterprises to develop and run AI agents quickly and securely.
The company also launched the AI Work Hub and Model catalog, enabling enterprises across Switzerland to build complex AI projects, customize models and deploy agentic AI at scale and speed.
The new enterprise AI services are hosted on Swisscom’s sovereign AI factory, built on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. This allows for fast and easy scaling of capacity to serve Switzerland’s rapidly growing demand for AI services and inference, expanding the company’s revenue opportunities.
Telefónica Empowers Spanish Enterprises at the Edge
Telefónica is piloting distributed edge AI infrastructure across Spain to bring advanced computing closer to where data’s generated and where local AI inference is needed.
The company will be deploying hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs as part of its edge AI fabric. This will help ensure that AI services are delivered with low latency, reliability and strong privacy protections, and that trusted information stays within national borders.
The edge AI solution incorporates NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA NIM microservices, enabling secure, scalable and enterprise-grade AI applications for key sectors such as government and financial services.
Fastweb Innovates for Italy With New Language Model
Fastweb built MIIA — one of the first Italian language models to support generative AI applications — trained and running on its NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer.
Watch the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang at VivaTech, and explore the GTC Paris telecom special address and industry panel with Orange, Swisscom and Telenor.
Learn more about sovereign AI in telecom.