Overview
- Telekom opened the refurbished Tucherpark facility on February 4 with roughly 10,000 Nvidia GPUs and reports utilization already above one third.
- SAP supplies software for a secure “Germany stack,” while partner Polarise installed and operates the hardware as part of Telekom’s Industrial AI Cloud.
- Telekom says the center will deliver about 0.5 exaflops at full build‑out, roughly half of Germany’s currently bookable AI capacity.
- The underground site draws cooling water from the Eisbach and is planned to feed waste heat into district heating, with operations powered by renewable electricity, according to the company.
- Initial customers include Siemens, Agile Robots, PhysicsX and Quantum Systems, though experts caution high energy costs and reliance on US chips limit a broader domestic AI datacenter surge.