Dell Technologies and NxtGen partner to build India’s largest AI factory

NxtGen AI, a leading sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure provider, has selected Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA solutions to build India’s first and largest dedicated AI factory. This will significantly expand India’s national AI capability, enabling large-scale generative AI, agentic AI, physical AI, and high-performance computing across enterprises, startups and government programs.

Dell will provide the core infrastructure, including Vertiv liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge XE9685L servers, delivered through Dell Integrated Rack Scalable Systems, for NxtGen’s new AI cluster, empowering the company to meet the growing demand for AI as a Service and large-scale GPU capacity.

This accelerated computing infrastructure is vital for advancing India’s AI mission, significantly expanding NxtGen’s AI cloud services for a diverse range of clients, from start-ups to academia and government.

By empowering NxtGen with this advanced foundation, Dell is accelerating India's next wave of AI development and innovation, ensuring critical access to high-performance AI capabilities across the region.

Powering the future of AI

The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA combines AI infrastructure, software and services in an advanced, full-stack platform designed to meet the most demanding AI workloads and deliver scalable, reliable performance for training and inference.

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.

Empowering AI for Human Progress

The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA offers a full stack of AI solutions from data centre to edge, enabling organisations to rapidly adopt and scale AI deployments. The integration of Dell’s AI capabilities with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, networking, and software technologies provides 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.

By equipping organisations like NxtGen with cutting-edge AI infrastructure and services, Dell is helping to unlock new possibilities and create a future where technology empowers everyone to achieve more.

Perspectives

“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. Our collaboration with NxtGen brings these capabilities closer to Indian enterprises, helping them deploy AI efficiently and cost-effectively. This marks another step in our commitment to empowering India’s digital future through secure, scalable, and sovereign AI infrastructure.”

“NxtGen is committed to building India’s AI backbone,” said A. S. Rajgopal, managing director and chief executive officer, NxtGen. “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. Dell Technologies has been critical in enabling this scale, performance, and reliability. Together, we are unlocking the infrastructure that will power the next generation of Indian AI models and applications.”

“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.”