Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’

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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AWS Middle East cloud recovery set to take months

May 5, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Amazon Web Services confirmed that full restoration of its UAE cloud infrastructure services will ta...

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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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AWS Bahrain cloud region disruption highlights physical cloud infrastructure risk

April 6, 2026
Swapna Subramani

The AWS Bahrain cloud infrastructure region was disrupted by drone activity amid the wider Middle Ea...

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Khazna establishes NexOps to consolidate data centre operations

February 17, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Khazna Data Centers launched Khazna NexOps, a new in-house operations organisation aimed at standard...

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Batelco and Qareeb to launch edge data centre in Bahrain

February 4, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Bahrain-based telco Batelco and data centre operator Qareeb confirmed plans to deploy an edge data c...

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Nebius contracts 80MW with new Israeli operator MEGA DC

January 22, 2026
Sacha Kavanagh

Amsterdam-based neocloud Nebius signed a five-year contract for 80MW capacity at two new data centre...

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Saudi Arabia opens market to all foreign investors

January 15, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Saudi Arabia’s move to allow all categories of foreign investors direct access to its stock market...

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Khazna names Saudi country head and signals Dammam buildout up to 200MW

January 15, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Khazna Data Centers named Mohammed Bin Hassan as country head for Saudi Arabia, adding a local senio...

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