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Deutsche Telekom joins bid to build EU-backed mega AI data centre

29 May 2025

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Group is part a five-player consortium that hopes to win a piece of the EU’s €20bn budget to build an “AI Gigafactory” in Germany, as Europe unlocks funding for AI and digital infrastructure.

This article includes:

  • Organisations: Atlantic Hub; Capgemini; Deutsche Telekom; Digital Transformation Capital Partners; European Commission; European Union; Greenscale; Iliad; Ionos; maincubes; Orange; Orange Wholesale; SAP; Schwarz; Siemens; StackIT; T-Systems.
  • Geographic; Berlin; Biere; Europe; Frankfurt; France; Germany.
  • People: Christine Knackfuss-Nicolic; Friedrich Merz; Michaël Trabbia; Timotheus Höttges.
  • Themes: AI Gigafactory; AI-dedicated infrastructure; Build-to-suit projects; Data centre capacity; Data centre investments; Digital infrastructure; Enterprise IT; EU funding; Hyperscalers; Independent infrastructure; Infrastructure sovereignty; InvestAI initiative; Mega facilities; Portfolio expansion; Private investment; Public investment; Sovereign cloud; Telco Cloud.

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