Dayananda Sagar University Partners with NVIDIA to Launch India’s First AI-First Factory with ₹175 Crore Investment.
Dayananda Sagar University (DSU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NVIDIA to establish India’s first AI-First Factory, marking a major milestone in the country’s push toward sovereign AI infrastructure and advanced supercomputing capabilities. The initiative will be powered by 20 NVIDIA DGX B200 (Blackwell) supercomputing clusters, designed for large-scale AI model training and inference.
The AI-first factory will leverage NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell platform to create production-grade AI computing infrastructure within an academic ecosystem. With an investment exceeding ₹175 crore, DSU aims to bridge the persistent gaps in India’s AI landscape, including under-equipped infrastructure, reliance on foreign AI models, limited domestic supercomputing technologies, and the disconnect between academic training and industry deployment requirements.
The facility is designed to align academic research, multidisciplinary education, and enterprise-grade AI development environments. By integrating high-performance AI supercomputing directly into the university’s academic framework, students, researchers, and industry collaborators will gain hands-on access to real-world AI systems and scalable computing resources.
Dr. D. Premachandra Sagar, Founder and Pro-Chancellor of Dayananda Sagar University, stated that the collaboration with NVIDIA represents a structural shift in how universities can drive AI innovation. He emphasized that the NVIDIA-powered AI factory infrastructure will enable students and researchers to contribute meaningfully to India’s long-term vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat, sovereign technology development, responsible AI innovation, and future-ready workforce creation.
In addition to the AI factory, DSU will establish six industry-integrated Centres of Excellence with a capital expenditure of over ₹50 crore. These Centres will focus on healthcare, engineering, defence, cybersecurity, semiconductors, smart mobility, and sustainability. Designed as applied AI innovation hubs, they will facilitate deep collaboration between academia and industry to develop deployable AI solutions across critical sectors. The university is also actively recruiting chief architects to lead these Centres, tasked with architecting AI platforms, building elite engineering teams, and transforming compute capacity into scalable intelligence systems.
As part of its broader sustainability and infrastructure transformation strategy, DSU has also launched the DSU–Siemens Sustainability & Net Zero Collaboration in partnership with Siemens. This initiative will deploy advanced Siemens technologies to create climate-resilient campus systems and sustainable infrastructure aligned with net-zero objectives.
A key component of the AI-first factory vision is large-scale talent development. DSU aims to skill approximately 20,000 students across disciplines in AI-driven domains, including artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, generative AI and large language model (LLM) development, AI platforms and MLOps, AI product architecture, and domain-specific AI use cases spanning healthcare, cybersecurity, robotics, electronics, and smart systems.
DSU will formally showcase its AI-first factory vision at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, to be held in New Delhi from February 16–20 at Bharat Mandapam. The NVIDIA-powered pavilion will feature humanoid robotics demonstrations and highlight DSU’s strategic collaborations with Siemens and other technology partners, reinforcing its ambition to position India as a global leader in AI supercomputing, digital innovation, and sovereign AI development.
