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The mechanics of the artificial intelligence economy are shifting in ways that have little to do with chatbots or consumer apps. What we are witnessing instead is the quiet industrialization of intelligence itself, with computation emerging not as a product to be sold but as critical infrastructure to be built, owned, and secured.

Factories of Intelligence

On October 28, the U.S. Department of Energy, working alongside NVIDIA and Oracle, unveiled plans to construct the largest government-backed AI supercomputer in the nation's history. The Solstice system will deploy 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs at Argonne National Laboratory. Days later, Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA announced a €1 billion partnership to launch Europe's first Industrial AI Cloud in Munich, set to go live in the first quarter of 2026.

The facility will house up to 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and is expected to increase Germany's AI computing capacity by roughly 50 percent.​

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These are not research projects. They are production facilities for a commodity that did not exist a decade ago: raw intelligence at scale. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang described them explicitly as factories, and the metaphor is precise. Just as electrification required power plants and the internet demanded fiber optic cables, artificial intelligence now requires purpose-built centers where models are trained, refined, and deployed at speeds and volumes that strain the boundaries of existing infrastructure.​

This reframing carries immediate economic and geopolitical weight. The Deutsche Telekom partnership is explicitly framed around sovereignty, with repeated references to the "Deutschland-Stack" and "Made in Germany" branding. SAP is providing the software layer to ensure compliance with German data protection standards. Perplexity, an American AI startup, has already committed to using the facility to deliver "sovereign" AI inference within Germany's borders. The subtext is unmistakable. In an era where data residency and algorithmic control have become matters of national security, Europe is moving to reduce its dependence on American hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

The U.S. is deepening public-private partnerships tying federal research directly to corporate infrastructure. NVIDIA now acts less like a chipmaker and more like a co-architect of national capacity.

Investors have taken note. NVIDIA’s evolution into an ‘infrastructure provider’ has made it the quintessential picks-and-shovels company of the AI gold rush — building the refineries where intelligence itself is produced.

The Power Cost of Progress

That dominance comes with costs that are only beginning to register. The DOE's Solstice system alone will deliver 2,200 exaflops of AI performance, a figure that sounds abstract until translated into energy demand. Leading AI supercomputers now require power capacities exceeding 100 kilowatts per rack, with some facilities consuming hundreds of megawatts.

Deutsche Telekom's Munich data center will draw heavily on local power grids, and the DOE's systems will place similar demands on the Midwest electrical infrastructure. BloombergNEF forecasts that U.S. data center power demand will more than double by 2035, rising from 35 gigawatts in 2024 to 78 gigawatts, with AI-driven facilities accounting for the bulk of that growth. By one estimate, data centers could consume 8.6 percent of all U.S. electricity by the middle of the next decade, up from 3.5 percent today.​

Training and running large AI models already consumes power equal to thousands of homes — a challenge for both U.S. and EU decarbonization goals.

This is the paradox at the heart of the AI infrastructure buildout. The technology promises productivity gains, scientific breakthroughs, and economic growth on a scale comparable to previous industrial revolutions. It also demands energy inputs that could, if unchecked, undermine climate commitments and strain electrical grids already struggling to accommodate renewable intermittency. The question is not whether AI will reshape economies, but whether the infrastructure required to sustain it can be deployed without imposing costs that eventually outweigh the benefits.​

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The Balance Ahead

Governments and corporations appear willing to accept those costs — for now. These billion-euro projects are strategic bets that computational capacity itself is worth building. Yet AI infrastructure is being deployed in years, not decades, and its sustainability will determine how long this era truly lasts.


Deniss Slinkins,
Global Financial Journal

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