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News - Middle East (EN)
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Internet disrupted in Syria amid rebel takeover of the country
Hama and Homs have been impacted the most reports NetBlocks
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Ooredoo seeks more capacity to house Nvidia AI chips
Follows partnership signed in June
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Iran plans GPU data center to host national AI system
Data center scheduled for 2025, AI operating system prototype expected in six months
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IHS Towers sells stake in Kuwait tower unit
Proceeds will be used to ease debts
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Qareeb Data Centres and Gcore sign MoU AI and cloud services in Middle East
Shortly follows Gcore's joint venture announcement with Ezditek
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Ezditek breaks ground on 24MW data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Also announces joint venture with Gcore for AI infrastructure in Kingdom
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Uzbekistan to build 'carbon-free' data center with Saudi partners
According to the Minister of Digital Technologies
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Pure Data Centres and Dune Vaults team up for hyperscale data centers in Saudi Arabia
Aims to develop multiple 100+MW campuses in Kingdom
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Batelco launches first off-grid mobile site in Bahrain
The project will utilize onsite wind and solar generation to power its operations
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Telecom Egypt and Vodafone Egypt sign $600m 5G infrastructure deal
Agreements also cover fiber
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Khazna and BEEAH JV partners with SCTA for Sharjah, UAE, data centers
Joint venture was signed in 2022 to develop 9MW facility, SCTA joins project
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STC Group announces Bahrain data center park and inaugurates 2Africa extension
Parent company's subsidiaries Center3 and STC Bahrain invest $300m in the two projects
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Ericsson signs 6G MoU with UAE's e&
Will look to explore 6G use cases
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Telecom Egypt and ASN land Africa-1 cable in Ras Ghareb, Egypt
Third landing for the cable, scheduled to be operational in 2025
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Batelco and Qareeb Data Centres sign MoU for Bahrain facility
Part of the former's previously announced Data Oasis project
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DCD>Awards 2024 shortlist announced!
The 18th annual ceremony will be hosted in London on December 11 and broadcast live worldwide
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Microsoft signs strategic agreement with ADNOC & Masdar to support low carbon initiatives in UAE
As part of the agreement, the companies will seek opportunities to power Microsoft’s data centers with renewable energy through Masdar
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Equinix launches Salalah data center in Oman
Partners with Omantel for 125-rack site
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Saudi dairy company Almarai migrates to Google Cloud
Company moves critical systems to Google Cloud Platform
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Telecom Egypt and Mobily to land Saudi-Egypt subsea cable
MoU first signed in June 2022, cable is still going ahead
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Intel to lay off several hundred employees at its Israeli R&D centers – report
Has three R&D centers in the middle eastern nation
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Ooredoo launches 10MW Sohar data center in Oman
Plans first announced in 2022, details still have not been shared
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Equinix launches data center in Istanbul, Türkiye
Company opens second facility at former Zenium site
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Oxagon in talks to construct 1GW AI data center in Saudi Arabia
The data center would be powered by renewable energy and utilize backup batteries
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Google Cloud to develop AI Hub in Saudi Arabia with PIF
Signs agreement with Public Investment Fund for hub near Dammam
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NextSilicon unveils its Maverick-2 Intelligent Compute Accelerator
Claims it is the “world’s first”
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Khazna announces 100MW Ajman data center, UAE
And signs MoU to improve digital infrastructure in Cyprus