Deutsche Telekom Expands Munich AI Data Center by 20MW with B300 GPUs

Deutsche Telekom has announced a 20MW expansion of its AI factory data center at Munich's Tucherpark, deepening the German telecoms giant's bet on sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure as Europe races to close the gap with the United States and China in AI computing capacity. The move underscores the growing urgency among European operators to scale up domestic AI capacity and reduce reliance on overseas cloud providers.

The expansion will see the company continue to deploy Nvidia's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition and B200 GPUs while adding the more powerful Blackwell Ultra Generation (B300) GPUs to the facility. The original AI factory at Tucherpark, first announced in October 2025, only went live in February 2026 and increased Germany's available AI computing capacity by 50 percent at the time. That initial deployment was fully booked within seven months, signaling robust demand for domestic AI compute.

Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges framed the expansion as part of a broader national mission, stating: "Germany must not only be a user of AI; it must also create value and prosperity itself. Telekom has moved forward here at a rapid pace. The world must take Europe seriously. The goal is not only to develop AI, but to put it into practice as a scalable business model – delivering measurable efficiency gains, new products, and additional value creation in Germany and Europe."

The expansion comes as Deutsche Telekom and SAP were among the companies pitching to host a large-scale data center under the European Union's AI gigafactory initiative, a program designed to bolster the bloc's AI infrastructure sovereignty. Munich ranks as Germany's third-largest data center market by capacity, behind Frankfurt and Berlin, according to a May 2024 report by research firm DC Byte, making it a prominent secondary market for digital infrastructure investment.

Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems unit, founded in 2000, operates 130MW of data center capacity across 16 facilities, with a footprint spanning Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and the US. The company launched a private cloud region in Spain in 2024. The expanded AI factory is expected to strengthen Germany's position as a competitive AI hub and provide enterprises across Europe with access to high-performance computing resources needed for training and deploying large-scale AI models.