A second big data centre story this month has come from the Democratic Republic of Congo as it inaugurates a US$30 million data centre from Raxio Group, said to be Africa’s leading carrier-neutral Tier III data centre operator.
Qatar-based telecoms player Ooredoo Group announced on Sunday that it has signed a deal to become an Nvidia Cloud Partner (NCP) to enable development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the MENA region.
China Telecom has announced the industry’s first pilot commercial deployment of distributed training for a large language model (LLM) with 177 billion (177B) parameters, using 1024 GPUs over a 500 km field-deployed fiber link.
Philippine broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions announced on Wednesday that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with US-based IT solutions provider Supermicro to help it build three ‘green’ AI data centres in the Philippines.