Danny Weber
03:56 05-11-2025
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NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom will build a €1B AI data center near Munich, adding about 10,000 GPUs and boosting Germany's AI computing power 50% by early 2026.
NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom have announced a joint €1 billion investment to build one of Europe’s largest data centers dedicated to artificial intelligence infrastructure. The facility, slated to come online in the first quarter of 2026, is expected to raise Germany’s aggregate AI computing power by roughly 50%. The move points to a deliberate effort to anchor more of the AI value chain within Europe.
The project was formally unveiled at an event in Berlin attended by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Deutsche Telekom chief Tim Höttges, senior leaders from SAP SE and Deutsche Bank, and representatives of the German government. The lineup reflected broad backing from both industry and policymakers.
According to the company’s head, NVIDIA intends to bring AI and robotics technologies to Germany, opening what was described as a new era of industrial transformation. The company said this is among the largest deployments of cutting-edge AI chips in the country. SAP will contribute its business platform and suite of enterprise applications for integration with the center. The new data center will be built on Deutsche Telekom’s existing complex outside Munich.
The infrastructure is set to include around 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs, a substantial boost to local data-processing capabilities, though still modest beside some U.S. initiatives. For comparison, a Texas data center planned by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle aims to use about 500,000 GPUs. The contrast is sizable, yet the German buildout marks a tangible step toward narrowing that gap.
The investment lands amid a wider European push for technological independence. In February, the European Union unveiled a €200 billion plan to advance AI and triple the region’s computing capacity over the next five to seven years. Despite those ambitions, experts note that Europe still trails the United States in both investment scale and deployment speed. Against that backdrop, the Deutsche Telekom–NVIDIA partnership reads as a strategic down payment on Europe’s AI future.