Pakistan petroleum company plans to diversify into data centres

Google announced on Thursday it will invest US$850 million in its long-planned Terros data centre in Canelones, Uruguay, a month after convincing the government that the facility won’t exacerbate the country’s water shortage due to drought.

China is reportedly planning to build a network to connect thousands of new data centres in the country with the aim of selling the excess compute power and alleviating a capacity glut.

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 …