The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - Middle East
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Iraq establishes first new satellite gateway since 2003, supporting security & aviation
New ground station arrives after a raft of successful international telecoms infrastructure projects
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Zain, Ooredoo launch first phase of Middle Eastern tower JV
The tower JV comprises 4,000 towers
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Nebius signs on for 50MW at Neom's Oxagon data center in Saudi Arabia
Deal signed with Humain and DataVolt
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Aselan declares 198-satellite Astralink constellation for sovereign Turkish connectivity
Sovereign trend in dual-use space technology spreads to space underdog Türkiye, following new Starlink slow-downs in Ukraine
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Digital Realty breaks ground on 22MW data center in Ankara, Türkiye
Partnering with Turkish investment firm Rönesans
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Israel to cap capacity of new data centers at 200MW - report
New rules come as country faces unprecedented data center demand
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Google-backed carbon buying consortium Frontier signs $11.7m removal deal with 44.01
The contract covers 20,932 tons of carbon
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Google's EMEA energy team hiring for range of new positions
Further opportunities in the energy space at Google
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Meeza and Microsoft launch sovereign private cloud in Qatar
Using Azure Local hosted in Meeza's data centers
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Iraq’s iQ Networks and the connectivity arm of Qatar’s Ooredoo Group sign fiber deal
The agreement will see the extension of traffic from Gulf subsea cable overland into Iraq
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Two workers killed, third injured, in explosion at Intel’s Kiryat Gat fab in Israel
Company says it is cooperating with authorities on investigation into incident
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VivoPower starts construction at 42MW Mo i Rana data center in Norway
To spin off 2.2GW non-Nordic AI data center portfolio into a new listed firm
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Iraqi gov't reveals plans for five data centers
New facilities to be located in Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul
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Intro Group to invest $270m in Egypt’s Kemet Data Center
The facility will be developed in two phases
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Medusa subsea cable system expands to Jordan, partners with NaiTel
System to connect to Coral Bridge cable
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Lenovo and MemryX partner for Edge AI deployment in Saudi Arabia
The companies already operate the platform across two deployments in the Kingdom
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Microsoft to invest $10bn into Gulf states by 2030
Earmarked for investments across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait
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Oman’s O-Green targets 200MW of data center capacity by 2028
Firm says its data centers in Oman and Europe will be powered by low-cost renewable energy
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AWS “unable to restore access” to data centers hit by Iran strikes
Damage exceeded what availability zone-design designed to withstand
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Astranis to supply micro GEO satellite to Saudi's STC
Satellite to launch next year
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Damac and Vodafone launch Turkish data center
Facility launches with 4MW, scalable to 20MW
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Digital Realty enters Turkey, plans 22MW facility in Ankara
Forms joint venture with local holding company Rönesans
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Heca Data plans integrated zone for hyperscale data centers in Egypt
A delegation led by the data center developer’s CEO “voiced interest” in strengthening cooperation with the Egyptian government
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Loft Orbital, Marlan Space, and Mistral sign $1bn deal to put compute in space
Will launch constellation of 50 satellites
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Damac and Vodafone Türkiye triple Izmir data center project budget
The project investment has swelled to $300 million since it was announced two years ago
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Qatar's Meeza signs 8MW lease with global hyperscaler
Company's largest contract to date
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Humain breaks ground on Neom’s Oxagon data center
The campus in the floating hexagonal industrial district is targeting 1.5GW
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CollPlant Biotechnologies acquires laser-based computing startup LightSolver
Financial terms of deal have not been disclosed