Bosch SDS, NxtGen launch sovereign industrial AI cloud in India
The offering combines Bosch’s industrial AI and digital twin platforms with NxtGen’s sovereign GPU cloud and edge infrastructure for large-scale AI workloads.
The initiative will provide AI and industrial digital platforms hosted entirely within India, enabling organisations to run high-performance AI workloads while meeting data residency and regulatory compliance requirements.
The collaboration combines Bosch SDS’s manufacturing and engineering AI platforms with NxtGen’s sovereign cloud infrastructure, edge data centres and GPU-as-a-service capabilities.
Under the partnership, the companies will jointly pursue enterprise opportunities in India through integrated AI platforms, managed infrastructure services and sector-specific Industry 4.0 solutions.
The companies will jointly develop and bring to market a Digital Twin – Manufacturing Cloud.
The platform integrates NxtGen’s sovereign infrastructure and orchestration stack with Bosch SDS’s Industry 4.0, IoT, simulation and engineering platforms.
This will support AI-driven manufacturing intelligence, predictive maintenance and asset optimisation while enabling industrial data to move between edge environments and centralised cloud platforms.
The architecture allows manufacturers to deploy AI systems in edge environments while maintaining centralised orchestration and remote monitoring.
This approach allows companies to modernise factory operations while retaining control over sensitive operational and production data.
Managed GPU infrastructure for AI workloads
Under the agreement, NxtGen will provide managed GPU infrastructure to run AI workloads supporting industrial and enterprise applications.
The services include GPU provisioning, lifecycle management, 24-hour monitoring, security management and performance optimisation.
The infrastructure will also support Kubernetes-based orchestration to manage AI workloads across distributed environments.
Bosch SDS will focus on delivering domain-specific AI applications, platform engineering and solution integration across manufacturing and enterprise environments.
Bosch SDS’ chief revenue officer, Ramesh Ramaswamy, said the partnership enables flexible deployment models depending on enterprise infrastructure requirements.
“The partnership includes flexible deployment models such as edge data centres and cloud-at-customer models, enabling GPU infrastructure to be deployed at customer premises while being centrally managed,” he said.
He added that the architecture is designed to support enterprise AI workloads such as model orchestration, inference pipelines and performance optimisation within managed GPU environments.
The companies say the partnership reflects a broader shift in how enterprises are deploying AI within operational environments.
NxtGen’s managing director and chief executive, A S Rajgopal, said organisations are moving AI beyond analytical dashboards toward real-time operational decision-making.
“In manufacturing and retail, AI is rapidly evolving from dashboards to real-time operational control,” he said.
“That shift requires infrastructure that is local, predictable and production-grade.”