At Huawei Connect 2025 in Shanghai, China, Eric Xu, Huawei’s Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating Chairman, gave a keynote speech entitled “Groundbreaking SuperPoD Interconnect: Leading a New Paradigm for AI Infrastructure.”
Digital infrastructure company Equinix announced it has opened its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in South Africa, and is already onboarding new customers and partners.
The Congolese capital Brazzaville is to house a data centre, supported by funding of €66.55 million (about US$72.2 million) including US$57 million from the African Development Bank (ADB) and US$15.70 million from the government of Congo.
Ciena said on Wednesday that digital infrastructure and technology provider Cirion Technologies will deploy its solutions on subsea and terrestrial cable routes to enable its Latin American data centres to support growing demand for cloud and AI.