Dell Technologies and NVIDIA deploy India's largest AI factory with over 4,000 Blackwell GPUs

Dell, NxtGen to build India's largest AI factory with over 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

Dell Technologies is powering India's first and largest dedicated AI factory for NxtGen AI, featuring over 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. This initiative aims to significantly boost India's domestic AI computing capacity for enterprises, startups, and government programs. The deployment will support large-scale generative AI and high-performance computing workloads within NxtGen's sovereign cloud framework. Dell Technologies on Wednesday said it will power India's first and largest dedicated AI factory for NxtGen AI Pvt Ltd, a move aimed at sharply expanding the country's domestic AI computing capacity for enterprises, start-ups and government programmes. Under the deployment, NxtGen has selected Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA solutions to build what it described as India's largest AI model-training cluster, hosted entirely within its sovereign cloud framework. The infrastructure will support large-scale generative AI, agentic AI, physical AI and high-performance computing workloads, positioning NxtGen to scale AI-as-a-Service offerings and meet rising demand for GPU capacity in India. Dell will supply the core compute and data-centre infrastructure, including Vertiv liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge XE9685L servers delivered through Dell Integrated Rack Scalable Systems. The AI factory will comprise over 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, along with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, purpose-built for AI training and inference. The setup will be complemented by Dell PowerEdge R670 servers and Dell PowerScale F710 storage. "India's rapid AI growth demands strong, reliable, and future-ready infrastructure," said Manish Gupta, president and managing director, India, Dell Technologies. "Dell Technologies is addressing this need through the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, designed to simplify and scale AI deployments across industries. As the top AI infrastructure provider, we are enabling this shift by combining storage, compute, networking and software to accelerate AI adoption." Gupta added that the collaboration with NxtGen would help Indian enterprises deploy AI "efficiently and cost-effectively," while reinforcing Dell's focus on "secure, scalable, and sovereign AI infrastructure." NxtGen said the deployment marks a national milestone in building domestic AI capability. "This deployment marks a significant milestone for the country: India's largest AI model-training cluster, built and operated entirely within India's sovereign cloud framework," said A. S. Rajgopal, managing director and chief executive officer, NxtGen. "Dell Technologies has been critical in enabling this scale, performance, and reliability." NVIDIA said the project aligns with India's broader AI ambitions. "India's ambitious AI mission requires a foundation of secure, high-performance accelerated computing infrastructure to enable model and AI application development," said Vishal Dhupar, managing director, Asia South, NVIDIA. "Dell's integration of NVIDIA AI software and infrastructure, including NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking, provides the AI factory resources to help NxtGen accelerate this critical national capability." Dell said the AI factory deployment will enable faster adoption of advanced AI workloads across sectors, from start-ups and academia to large enterprises and government, while strengthening India's access to high-performance, locally hosted AI infrastructure. (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel)

Dell Powers India's Largest AI Factory in Partnership with NxtGen

Leveraging the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, NxtGen will deploy Vertiv liquid-cooled, fully integrated Dell IR5000 racks featuring Dell PowerEdge XE9685L servers with the NVIDIA accelerated computing platform to build a cluster with over 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, all purpose-built for AI. These will be complemented by Dell PowerEdge R670 servers and Dell PowerScale F710 storage. Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA: Empowering AI for Human Progress The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA offers a full stack of AI solutions from data center to edge, enabling organizations to rapidly adopt and scale AI deployments. The integration of Dell's AI capabilities with NVIDIA's accelerated computing, networking, and software technologies provide customers with an extensive AI portfolio and an open ecosystem of technology partners. With more than 3,000 customers globally, the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA reflects Dell's leadership in enabling enterprises with scalable, secure and high-performance AI infrastructure. The comprehensive Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA portfolio provides a simplified and reliable foundation for NxtGen to deliver advanced AI capabilities at speed and scale. This allows NxtGen to deliver on its core mission of providing sovereign, cost-effective and powerful AI services that help businesses grow and innovate, while at the same time reinforcing Dell's commitment to providing the technology that drives human progress.

Dell and NVIDIA combine to power NxtGen's largest India AI factory

Blackwell GPUs, liquid cooling, and fast networks power AI training For most people, the phrase "AI factory" sounds somewhere between a buzzword and a sci-fi prop. But in reality, it's a tangible thing that India is starting to build at a serious scale. That's the context behind Dell Technologies and NVIDIA working with NxtGen to build what they're calling India's largest dedicated AI factory. At its simplest, an AI factory is exactly what it sounds like - it's essentially technology hardware infrastructure designed to mass-produce intelligence. Not apps, but trained AI models, again and again, at speed and massive scale. And that requires a very different kind of hardware stack than the data centres that power your regular email inbox or cloud storage. At the heart of this setup is Dell's AI Factory being built by NxtGen on top of the NVIDIA platform. In other words, Dell's essentially offering a complete, pre-validated AI stack - full of compute, networking, storage, cooling - designed to work together without prolonged trial and error. NxtGen, which is in the business of building cutting edge data centres, is using Dell and NVIDIA hardware to build this AI factory to power AI workloads for predominantly Indian use cases. The compute layer is doing the real heavy lifting. Dell is deploying PowerEdge XE9685L servers - machines purpose-built for AI training and inference - packed with NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPUs. We're talking about thousands of GPUs working in parallel, designed to train large models faster, more efficiently, and at higher reliability than previous generations. Ultimately, this AI factory isn't about running one chatbot, but about running many large workloads simultaneously without bottlenecks. Also read: DGX Spark, NVLink Fusion, RTX PRO Servers - NVIDIA's Full AI Stack Revealed Of course, with a data centre labelled as AI Factory comes unprecedented cooling needs. GPUs at this scale generate enormous heat, and traditional air-cooled data centres simply don't cut it. Cutting edge liquid-cooled systems deployed by NxtGen, allows the AI factory to push higher performance per rack while keeping power and thermal limits under control. This translates to more compute in less space, without cooking the hardware. Networking is the other silent killer of AI performance, and it's where NVIDIA's Spectrum-X Ethernet platform comes into play. On top of that sits NVIDIA's BlueField-3 DPUs, which offload networking, security, and data movement tasks away from the CPUs and GPUs. This frees up more compute for actual AI work - a small architectural detail that makes a big difference at scale. Storage, meanwhile, is handled by Dell PowerScale systems designed to feed vast datasets into GPUs without becoming a choke point. What ties all of this together is Dell's approach to integration. Instead of customers stitching together servers, networking, software, and cooling from multiple vendors, the AI factory model delivers a tightly integrated system that's already tuned for AI workloads. For startups, enterprises, and institutions consuming this infrastructure as a service, that means faster deployment and fewer unpleasant surprises along the way. The bigger takeaway here isn't the headline GPU numbers - and for the record, it's over 4000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs - it's that India is finally building AI infrastructure that's designed for AI from day one, not reimagined as an afterthought. This is the crucial plumbing behind the AI boom, and it's where the real work happens. You may never see this factory, nor will you be able to download it. But every serious AI system built on top of it will carry its fingerprints quietly in the background, unbeknownst to us all.