PLDT Group’s data centre arm Vitro inaugurated its 11th data centre – and the first to support AI and other hyperscale workloads – on Wednesday as it starts work on an even bigger hyperscale data centre with twice as much IT load capacity.
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.
UAE-headquartered digital infrastructure company Khazna Data Centres has announced plans to collaborate with multinational corporation and technology company Nvidia to build artificial intelligence (AI) factories in the Middle East Africa (MEA) region.
A Brazilian renewable energy company, Casa dos Ventos, has been given the go-ahead from the country’s power grid regulator for a 300-megawatt data centre project in the Pecem port complex in Ceara, northeastern Brazil.