(Reuters) - The chief executive of Deutsche Telekom on Wednesday called on Germany's incoming government and Europe to take on more leadership in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and data centres to compete with the U.S. and Asia. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT Chinese startup DeepSeek triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month when it unveiled a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors and is now rushing to launch a new AI model, according to three sources. Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges said he expected demand for data centres to increase by at least 30%...