Alibaba Cloud plans to expand its global data centre capacity to more than 20 gigawatts by 2032 as the company increases infrastructure spending for AI computing. Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu announced the target at the company’s Apsara Conference in Hangzhou yesterday. Alibaba did not disclose its current data centre capacity or provide a regional […]
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AWS has said it cannot restore access to some resources and data in Bahrain and one Availability Zone in the UAE after physical damage affected its cloud infrastructure. In a September 15 update, AWS said it had exhausted its options for restoring data and resources that had not been migrated before its Middle East (Bahrain) […]
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The UAE is reviewing the design of its planned 5GW AI data centre project after Iranian missile and drone attacks damaged cloud infrastructure in the UAE and Bahrain, Reuters reported. Originally planned as a 10-square-mile campus in Abu Dhabi, the project will now likely comprise a network of data centres spread across the UAE, according […]
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Microsoft plans to more than triple its data centre capacity to about 38 gigawatts (GW) by 2032, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the plans. The company currently has about 12GW of capacity, according to Bloomberg’s reporting. Around 2GW is centred on AI-specific chips, while that share is expected to reach about one-third of […]
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Amazon and Qualcomm have agreed to develop multiple generations of customised silicon for AI data centres, with the collaboration covering AI inference and high-speed optical connectivity. Qualcomm announced the agreement recently, saying the companies will develop silicon for Amazon’s AI infrastructure. They are also working on optical connectivity extending to speeds of up to 1.6T, […]
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AWS plans to deploy another two million Nvidia GPUs across its global infrastructure in 2027 and 2028, adding to an earlier commitment for more than one million GPUs. The additional deployment will include Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs. The agreement also covers Nvidia CPUs, networking, and interconnect technology that AWS plans to […]
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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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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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