Posts Tagged ‘MEA’

Digital Realty acquires Columbia Capital, increases stake in South Africa’s Teraco, picks up energized land parcel in KC

July 6, 2026
Philbert Shih

Digital Realty made a number of moves, acquiring Columbia Capital, purchasing a powered land parcel ...

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KKR launches Helix Digital Infrastructure; backed by Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA and Vistra

June 24, 2026
Vivian Kong

KKR, alongside the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), NVIDIA and energy provider Vistra, launched He...

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Zoom’s second Saudi node lands at center3

June 22, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Zoom Video Communications launched its second data centre in Saudi Arabia, colocated within center3&...

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Rackspace opening MEA regional HQ in Saudi Arabia

June 20, 2026
Philbert Shih

Rackspace set up a MEA regional headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ...

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Core42 anchors Mubadala Group’s sovereign AI infrastructure stack

June 11, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Core42 and Solutions+, both operating within the Mubadala Investment Company group, confirmed a form...

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G42, Cerebras initiative Condor Galaxy advances sovereign AI compute in India

June 5, 2026
Swapna Subramani

The UAE’s G42 and the Government of India formalised the commercial framework for Condor Galax...

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Core42 secures $550m from HSBC to fund global data centre expansion

June 5, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Core42, the G42-owned sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure company based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, secured...

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1Q26 IB: War in the Middle East and geopolitics to impact sector at various levels

May 22, 2026
Philbert Shih

The war in the Middle East is currently, and will continue to have, significant ramifications for th...

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Middle East conflict hampers Gulf subsea cable build-out

May 19, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Alcatel Submarine Networks has declared force majeure on the 28k-mile Europe-to-Asia cable being ins...

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Middle East strikes raise new risks for Gulf data centre and AI expansion

April 13, 2026
Swapna Subramani

The Middle East data centre story has moved beyond broad geopolitical uncertainty and into direct in...

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Servernah Cloud selects iXAfrica in Kenya for sovereign cloud, AI platform

April 9, 2026
Sacha Kavanagh

iXAfrica’s NBOX1 data centre in Nairobi, Kenya is hosting Servernah Cloud, a sovereign cloud and A...

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OADC acquires seven South Africa data centres in sale-leaseback deal with NTT DATA

February 19, 2026
Sacha Kavanagh

South Africa-based Open Access Data Centres confirmed it had acquired seven data centres in the coun...

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