Category: Data Centres & Networks

At last week’s Huawei Connect 2025 event in Shanghai, Yang Chaobin, Huawei’s Director of the Board and CEO of the ICT Business Group, officially launched Huawei’s new open-access SuperPoD architecture, as well as a new line of SuperPoD-based products, …

At Huawei Connect 2025 in Shanghai, China, Eric Xu, Huawei’s Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating Chairman, gave a keynote speech entitled “Groundbreaking SuperPoD Interconnect: Leading a New Paradigm for AI Infrastructure.”

Equinix announced on Monday it has launched its first International Business Exchange (IBX) AI-ready data centre in Chennai, which it says will support business digitization, resilience and AI development in India.

Google has announced plans to construct four new subsea cable connectivity hubs in the north, south, east and west regions of Africa as part of another wave of investment to boost connectivity and AI development across the continent. 

The Iraqi government has announced plans to construct the country’s first data centres in partnership with Nokia.

MTN Group is reportedly in discussions with US and European companies to develop the infrastructure needed to power AI services.

Cassava Technologies founder Strive Masiyiwa has announced plans to build five AI factories in Africa over the next 12 months.

Digital Parks Africa (DPA), a South African-owned data centre provider, has partnered with iXAfrica Data Centres, which owns and operates East Africa’s first hyperscale, AI-ready data centre in Kenya, to bring what the partners call world-class da…

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) announced on Monday it has signed a co-operative agreement with internet exchange incubator Asteroid to take over its interconnection operations in Kenya.

Odata, a Brazilian provider of data centre services for Latin America, has announced a US$1.02 billion green financing deal focused on sustainable data centre infrastructure investments.