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Gulf Development Plc and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership to advance cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) growth in Thailand, combining the strengths of Gulf's power generation and renewable energy capabilities with Microsoft's technology expertise. This collaboration aims to enhance Thailand's cloud and data
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Google, Meta, and Microsoft announced significant increases in artificial intelligence (AI) spending, with Google set to spend between $91 billion and $93 billion this year, up from its previous estimate of $85 billion. Meta's AI spending will be at the high end of its previous estimate of $66
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Cisco Systems has introduced a suite of AI innovations in collaboration with NVIDIA, showcasing the company's commitment to delivering secure, scalable, and high-performance AI infrastructure across data centers, enterprises, and telecommunications networks worldwide. The launches, announced at NVIDIA GTC 2025 in Washington, D.C., mark a significant step
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Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has announced a strategic investment by STANLIB Infrastructure Investments to accelerate the growth of Africa Data Centres' footprint in South Africa. This partnership comes as the demand for digital infrastructure continues to rise in the country. The investment will drive the expansion and
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Lenovo and Nidec have jointly announced a collaboration to develop a highly efficient cooling solution for AI data centers, leveraging Lenovo's advanced liquid cooling technology, Lenovo Neptune, and Nidec's Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU). The initiative aims to reduce power consumption and environmental impact in data centers,
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Microsoft's quarterly sales grew by 18% to $77.7 billion, surpassing Wall Street expectations. The company invested nearly $35 billion in capital expenditures to support artificial intelligence and cloud computing demand, with almost half of that spent on computer chips and data center real estate. This expenditure overshadowed
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Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has announced a strategic partnership with STANLIB Infrastructure Investments to accelerate the expansion of Africa Data Centres' footprint in South Africa. This investment will drive the development of AI-ready data centres at Africa Data Centres campuses in Johannesburg and Cape Town, catering to
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Cisco has introduced significant advancements in secure and scalable artificial intelligence (AI), targeting various market segments. The company's latest announcements include the NVIDIA partner-developed Cisco N9100 data center switch, a NVIDIA Cloud Partner-compliant reference architecture for neocloud and sovereign cloud deployments, and enhanced security and observability integrations for
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Akamai Technologies has announced the launch of Akamai Inference Cloud, a platform that redefines where and how AI is used by expanding inference from core data centers to the edge of the internet. This distributed, generative edge platform places the NVIDIA AI stack closer to where data is created and
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Professionals from MSPs, ISPs, and enterprises can now build and validate their first OpenWiFi network with ease using the Edgecore Networks' Full-Stack OpenWiFi POC Kit. This announcement marks the beginning of the OpenWiFi Movement, a call to reclaim control of networks from closed vendor ecosystems. The POC Kit includes
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Fleet Mining, a cloud computing platform specializing in blockchain infrastructure, has announced updates to its service portfolio, including expanded support for Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin (BTC), and XRP. The new LTC cloud computing contracts focus on improving efficiency, transparency, and environmental performance through distributed data-center operations and renewable energy usage. This
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The Middle East data center market is poised for substantial growth, driven by investments of around $12 billion in new data centers by 2027. Khazna Data Centers, Saudi Telecom Company, and SDS Data Center top the list of leading data center operators by capacity in the region. Saudi Arabia dominates
