Category: Data Centres & Networks

The launch of a sovereign AI ecosystem in Malaysia that allegedly uses Huawei GPU chips took another twist on Wednesday when the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) issued a statement clarifying that the initiative is not a government pro…

Malaysia’s deputy communications minister has reportedly retracted her remarks earlier this week that a new sovereign, full-stack AI ecosystem launched in the country includes GPUs supplied by Huawei.

Malaysia’s Communications Ministry launched on Monday what it’s billing as a “Strategic Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure” – a sovereign, full-stack AI ecosystem powered by Huawei GPUs that also marks the first national deployment of Chinese …

UAE-based tech group G42 will lead a consortium of US companies to build a new 5GW AI data centre campus in Abu Dhabi as part of an agreement by the US and UAE governments to build and invest in AI infrastructure in the UAE and globally.

Brazilian investment firm Patria Investimentos has announced the launch of Omnia, a hyperscale data centre platform that will invest about US$1 billion in its first project in the next 18 to 24 months.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix has inaugurated its first International Business Exchange data centre in Jakarta under a joint venture with Indonesian conglomerate Astra International.

Safaricom said on Tuesday it has entered into a strategic partnership with Kenya’s iXAfrica Data Centres to offer services leveraging the new NBOX1 hyperscale data centre in Nairobi to enterprise and cloud solutions clients.

Malaysia is back in the data centre news again. Hard on the heels of news that Equinix has completed the second phase of a new data centre in Cyberjaya, Selangor, has come the announcement of an award by Google related to the building of a hypersc…

There are both positive developments and a few problems for the digital infrastructure company Equinix in Malaysia, according to recent headlines.

Indian data centre firm RackBank says it has broken ground on a campus in the city of Nava Raipur in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Spanning 13.5 acres, the development will be Chhattisgarh’s first data centre campus.