China's Alibaba Cloud has established plans for its global expansion over the next 12 months.

The company has said it will be targeting new cloud regions in Turkey (aka Türkiye), Finland, and the Netherlands, while expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France, and Hong Kong.

“As Alibaba Cloud has advanced from AI-native infrastructure to an agent-native cloud architecture, AI is also moving rapidly from experimentation to real-world deployment, creating demand for both scalable infrastructure and more accessible AI capabilities,” said Dr. Feifei Li, CTO and president of international business of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.

“We are expanding our global cloud footprint to bring computing resources closer to customers and partners, while continuing to evolve our AI technologies to help enterprises deploy models, optimize multi-model workloads, and create new AI-powered applications. At the same time, our growing ecosystem of customers and partners demonstrates how these capabilities can translate into tangible business value across industries and markets. We are committed to working closely with our global ecosystem to make AI more scalable, practical, and accessible for businesses.”

The company has been rapidly expanding its international footprint over the last year or so, having similarly announced in September 2025 its plans to expand over the following 12 months with new regions in Brazil, France, and the Netherlands, as well as expanding capacity in Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Dubai. Many of these expansions have since been completed.

This time last year, Alibaba operated 91 availability zones across 29 regions. At the time of writing, the company operates 107 availability zones across 31 regions globally.

The international expansion is part of Alibaba's commitment to investing $52.7bn by February 2028 to expand its cloud business. Recently, it's been reported that this figure could expand to as much as $69bn, although this has not been officially confirmed.

The company's CEO, Eddie Wu, has since said that the company needs its data center capacity to reach ten times that which it operated in 2022, and earlier this month said that the company plans to operate 20GW of cloud capacity by 2032.

Last month, the company raised $10.2bn in a Hong Kong share sale.