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STMicroelectronics Launches Data Center Photonics Chip In Collaboration With AWS
STMicroelectronics has unveiled its next generation of proprietary technologies for higher-performing optical interconnect in datacenters and AI clusters. With the exponential growth of AI computing needs, challenges arise in performance and energy efficiency across computing, memory, power supply, and the interconnections linking them. ST is helping hyperscalers, and the leading optical module pr...
Group AMANA And MIS To Develop AI-Ready, Sustainable Data Centres In Saudi Arabia
Group AMANA and Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at LEAP 2025 to fast-track Saudi Arabia’s transition into a global digital powerhouse, supporting Vision 2030 through high-performance, sustainable data centres. As Saudi Arabia continues its rapid digital transformation, driven by AI adoption, cloud computing, and enterprise digitalisati...
DataVolt And Modon To Build AI-Ready Data Center In Riyadh
DataVolt and The Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones (MODON) have agreed land lease terms for the development of a state-of-the-art AI-Ready data center in Riyadh. The 55,000 square meter plot is located in east Riyadh’s First Technology Park. The data center facility will be designed for advanced AI processing and will serve growing demand from hyperscalers, cloud and conte...
Extreme Unveils Platform ONE For Managed Service Providers
Extreme Networks has announced the upcoming general availability of Extreme Platform ONE for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Built on a unique AI-driven multi-tenant architecture, consumption-based billing, and poolable licensing, Extreme Platform ONE delivers unmatched flexibility, simplicity, and cost savings, enabling MSPs to manage customers at scale. Extreme’s MSP program allows part...
Databricks To Invest $300mln In Saudi Arabia
Recently at LEAP 2025, Databricks announced its plans to invest up to US$300 million in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the next five years. This investment will be used to enable its growing local customer base to combine data, analytics and AI on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and will support the formation of strategic partnerships to upskill Saudi citizens with the latest skills in...
Alibaba Cloud Launches Second Data Center In Thailand
Alibaba Cloud has announced the launch of its second data center in Thailand. The addition aims to increase local capacity in response to the rising demand for cloud computing services, particularly in supporting generative AI applications, while supporting the government’s initiatives for fostering digital innovation and sustainable technology development. “Our latest data center strengthen...
Data Center Capex to Exceed $1 Trillion By 2029
According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, worldwide data center capex is projected to surpass $1 trillion by 2029. AI infrastructure spending will maintain its strong growth momentum despite ongoing sustainability efforts. “We project that data center infrastructure spending could surpass $1 trillion annually within five years. While AI spending has yet to meet desired returns ...
Hitachi Vantara And Cisco Announce New Solution For Red Hat OpenShift
Hitachi Vantara has announced a new co-engineered solution with Cisco designed for Red Hat OpenShift, the Kubernetes-powered Hybrid Cloud platform. The Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure joint solution combines Cisco’s compute and networking systems with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays using Red Hat OpenShift container management tools. The in...
Airtel Lands SEA-ME-WE-6 Cable In Chennai
Bharti Airtel, Indian telco, has landed the new SEA-ME-WE 6 (Southeast Asia-Middle East-West Europe-6, or SMW6) in Chennai. The company had already landed the cable in Mumbai on December 30, 2024. These cable landings were completed by SubCom, a leading supplier of subsea fiber optic cable data systems responsible for the engineering, manufacture and installation of SEA-ME-WE-6. The 21,700 Rkm sub...
Zoom Deploys Node In Center3 Data Center In Saudi Arabia
In partnership with center3, Zoom has established its first node in Saudi Arabia. This initiative implements high-performance infrastructure to address the increasing demand for low-latency conferencing, thereby delivering enhanced service performance for users across the region. “As part of our mission to provide seamless and reliable communications globally, this node deployment in Saudi A...
Iron Mountain Invests In Ooredoo’s Data Center Company
Ooredoo Group and Iron Mountain have announced a strategic partnership, which will see the global leader in information management services take a minority equity stake in Ooredoo’s carrier-neutral data centre company, MENA Digital Hub. The partnership will enable Ooredoo to expand its MENA footprint of hyperscale and AI data centre infrastructure, combining the strength of the company’s local dev...
Core42 And Qualcomm Launch Inference-as-a-Service Offering In UAE Data Centers
Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and digital services, has announced the launch of the AI Playground in UAE data centers. Built on the Qualcomm Cloud AI family of accelerators and Qualcomm AI Inference Suite for Cloud, this free-to-access platform equips developers and AI engineers with ready-to-use high-performance AI applications and agents, tools, and li...