Alibaba Cloud launches second data center in Dubai
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has officially announced the launch of its second data center in Dubai. The facility aims to cater to the growing demand for cloud computing and AI services from local businesses. Readers would recall that Alibaba Cloud had made its foray into the region in […]
DEVELOPING STORY | AWS outage impacts over 80 Amazon apps and services, recovery underway
Amazon Web Services (AWS) was hit by an outage on Monday that led to disruption of at least 80 related web applications and services. However, at the time of publishing this story AWS reports that the underlying issue had been “fully mitigated” and that “most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now.” The outage impacted […]
Cellnex to sell its France DC business to Vauban Infra Fibre for €391 Million
Cellnex Telecom has announced plans to sell its French Edge data center business, Towerlink, to Vauban Infra Fibre (VIF) for €391 million. The deal marks a strategic exit from France for Cellnex as it shifts focus back to core telecom infrastructure assets. In a press release, Cellnex said, “Cellnex, through its wholly owned subsidiary Cellnex […]
Datavault and T4 expand DC operations in New Zealand
Home-grown data centre operators Datavault and T4 New Zealand Data Centres are both expanding their infrastructure to meet growing national demand for secure, locally managed digital capacity. The two companies, which emphasise New Zealand ownership and data sovereignty, have announced new developments in Auckland and Wellington aimed at strengthening the country’s data-centre network and supporting […]
DC supply scrambles to match pace with demand in North America: JLL report
The North American data center colocation market faces a concerning conundrum, and has arrived at a critical inflection point with vacancy levels hovering in the low single digits, finds a recent report by JLL. According to the report titled North America Data Center Report – Midyear 2025, demand for digital infrastructure continues to outpace supply, […]
STT GDC India to invest up to ₹ 5,000 crores in Maharashtra
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (India) (STT GDC India), a co-location data center services provider in India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Maharashtra, to develop data center campuses in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and Pune. Under the MoU, STT GDC India will invest up to an additional ₹ 5,000 […]
Charting the blueprint for the data centre’s next decade
Few in the industry can talk about the intersection of AI, cloud, and physical infrastructure with the range and depth of Scott Charter. As director of AI strategy at Oracle North America, he’s immersed in the rapid evolution of model architectures, from today’s transformer systems to tomorrow’s world-model frameworks. While he’ll be keynoting at the […]