Tencent Cloud plans to establish its first cloud region in Malaysia, while Alibaba Cloud has launched a third data centre in South Korea, adding capacity in two Asian markets as global cloud infrastructure spending continues to rise. Both announcements were made on August 18. Tencent’s planned Malaysia region will comprise up to three availability zones […]
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Amazon is redistributing parts of its e-commerce infrastructure across a wider range of AWS regions amid reported constraints on power and data centre capacity. The multiyear programme, known internally as “Region Flex”, is intended to reduce Amazon’s reliance on several large AWS regions and spread workloads across more locations, according to internal planning documents obtained […]
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IBM is preparing to deploy a large NVIDIA-based AI computing cluster on IBM Cloud under a multiyear agreement with Together AI worth $240 million. The cluster is expected to become available in the first quarter of 2027 and will use NVIDIA HGX B300 systems connected through NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. Together AI plans to use […]
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Oracle and Quantinuum have entered a multi-year partnership to make Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer available through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, giving OCI customers access to quantum hardware alongside existing GPU and high-performance computing services. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the companies did not provide a deployment date. Oracle plans to preview its OCI quantum service […]
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Microsoft has opened its fourth cloud region in India, adding new computing capacity in Hyderabad as companies move more workloads and AI applications onto cloud infrastructure. The India South Central region became generally available in Hyderabad, Telangana, and joins Microsoft’s existing regions in Pune, Chennai, and Mumbai. Microsoft also operates two data centres in India […]
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Microsoft has opened its fourth cloud region in India, adding new computing capacity in Hyderabad as companies move more workloads and AI applications onto cloud infrastructure. The India South Central region became generally available in Hyderabad, Telangana, and joins Microsoft’s existing regions in Pune, Chennai, and Mumbai. Microsoft also operates two data centres in India […]
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AI infrastructure startup Volta has emerged from stealth with a $2.4 billion valuation and a $10 billion agreement to provide cloud computing capacity in Europe alongside Bitdeer Technologies. The seven-month-old company said the six-year agreement will support an unnamed AI company through infrastructure at a Bitdeer-operated data centre in Norway. Bloomberg reported that the customer […]
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Large data centre projects intended to support AI and cloud workloads are facing power shortages and grid delays. Some are also facing planning disputes, land-use concerns, and rising construction costs. A report by The Guardian, citing data from the Uptime Institute, said 250 data centre projects requiring more than 100MW of power each were announced […]
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South Korea is moving to expand its AI infrastructure base through a series of projects covering data centres, semiconductors, and robotics. SK Telecom plans to build up to 15GW of AI data centre capacity. The plan follows a set of South Korean “mega projects” covering semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centres. Samsung Electronics, SK […]
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Meta Platforms is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that would sell access to AI computing power and models, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. CNBC later reported that Meta plans to sell excess computing power to outside customers. The business would compete with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and […]
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