A large-scale data centre is being planned by Turkey’s satellite operator Turksat. It will be constructed in the Gölbaşı district, 20 kilometres south of the capital Ankara, according to Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu.
Singapore-based data centre developer and operator Empyrion Digital announced on Tuesday it has secured regulatory approvals for its planned 200+MW hyperscale data centre campus in Johor, which will also be its first campus in Malaysia.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will invest US $3 billion in India in cloud and AI infrastructure over the next two years, including new data centres and skills development, as part of a broad initiative to develop the country’s AI ecosystem.
MTN Nigeria officially launched the first phase of its US$235 million data centre in Lagos on Tuesday, along with a cloud service to compete against the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google.