Submer, a full-stack AI and HPC data center infrastructure provider, has signed a collaboration agreement with Aginode, a global provider of physical connectivity and power distribution for data centers, to jointly develop and deliver integrated AI and data center infrastructure across the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey.
Under the agreement, both companies will work with customers from the first planning discussions to ensure that the facility’s thermal, power, and connectivity are designed as one architecture. It aims to help customers by reducing the number of handovers between specialists during design, and providing a clearer view of how the facility will perform once it is built and running.
Khalid Aljamed, General Manager, Middle East and Africa, Submer, said, “AI infrastructure in this region is being planned at a scale where the decisions made early in a project shape everything that follows. With Aginode, we can address thermal, power and connectivity together from the very first stage and give customers a more dependable path from design to delivery. We are pleased to formalize this collaboration and look forward to building on it with Yousef and his team.”
Yousef Arafat, General Manager, Aginode, added, “Submer’s advisory, design and thermal expertise complements our connectivity and power distribution portfolio very well. Our teams are already working side by side with customers in the region, and this agreement gives us a firm foundation to expand that work across the Middle East, Africa and Turkey.”
The companies say that the move comes in response to the growing demand for AI capacity across the region, supported by national digital programs, sovereign AI initiatives and growing enterprise investment. As compute density increases, thermal, power and connectivity become closely linked, and decisions taken separately at the design stage can add cost and delay later in a project.
Beyond individual projects, Submer and Aginode will collaborate on solution development, go-to-market activity and market intelligence. The two companies are already engaged with customers in the region, including in Egypt, and will target opportunities in AI factories, high-performance computing, hyperscale and colocation facilities, telecom networks and sovereign infrastructure programs.