AitopkitNVIDIA and Google Cloud announced on October 21, 2026, at GTC Berlin that the first live A5X instances powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 are running with an initial customer, with general availability planned for November 2026 and expanded availability in Europe also planned. London-based Ineffable Intelligence — founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver — is the first customer named as accessing the infrastructure, while WPP has demonstrated agentic AI workflows on the platform.
The A5X instances pair NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems and NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs with the Google Cloud Virgo Network and Google Cloud's fourth-generation advanced liquid-cooling technology, designed for large-scale agentic inference and reinforcement learning workloads. Each NVL72 rack combines 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs, and NVIDIA claims up to 10x higher inference throughput per watt than Blackwell at one-tenth the cost per token — the company's own figures, not independent benchmarks. Google Cloud said it plans to scale this Vera Rubin-based infrastructure to as many as 960,000 Rubin GPUs across multiple sites.
NVIDIA also introduced DSX POD, a containerized AI factory that integrates seven Vera Rubin AI racks into a shipping container-sized unit weighing about 28,000 kilograms; the company says the design could reduce the time needed for a new AI data center to begin processing tokens from six months to 14 days. The message from Berlin is clear: the AI race has moved from chips to finished AI factories — and the cloud capacity to rent them is about to go live.