Deutsche Telekom Pours €250 Million More into Munich AI Factory, Doubling Capacity to 20 MW
The facility, live since February 2026, filled within seven months, prompting an expansion with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs - vendor-reported figures.
Deutsche Telekom announced it is adding roughly €250 million to expand its Munich Tucherpark AI factory, doubling capacity to 20 MW, according to a company announcement made on 9 November and recirculated widely on 13 November. The expansion adds NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs alongside the existing B200 installation. The operator says the facility, which went live in February 2026, reached full occupancy within seven months - a vendor-reported claim. The announcement sits within a broader European pattern, with Orange preparing a 400 MW data center joint venture in France and SK Telecom reporting AI data center revenue growth in its quarterly results.
Telecom operators are steadily becoming AI compute providers in their home markets - selling GPU capacity and AI services, not just connectivity. The trend matters for emerging markets as a pricing and deployment reference: if European operators fill AI factories in months, regional operators' compute buildouts - including Indonesia's AI cloud ventures - become a question of when, not whether, reshaping where enterprises source AI capacity.