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

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.