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Water tech company AquaTech and new Saudi firm DataVolt collaborate for data centers

DataVolt is collaborating with AquaTech Systems, an Indian firm specializing in water technology, to construct water-efficient data centers. The two companies revealed this week that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation and services in water conditioning and rec...

September 12, 2023

Saudi Arabia

Huawei opens cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Huawei has announced the opening of a new cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The facility will reportedly support government services in the Kingdom, allowing for AI applications and language models in Arabic. Through the move, the Chinese tech giant will grow its online service offeri...

September 05, 2023

Saudi Arabia

Government of Iraq initiates National Data Center

Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani, Iraq's Prime Minister, has inaugurated the National Data Center. This week, the facility was inaugurated at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad by the Prime Minister. Very little information has been disclosed about the data center, which ha...

August 24, 2023

Middle East

Aqaba Digital Hub receives funding from Jordan's JCIF fund

Jordan Capital & Investment Fund (JCIF) invests in Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH), a company that operates a data center in Jordan. The fund revealed this week that it had finalized the terms of a ‘significant minority' investment in ADH, a Jordanian corporation that operates a data center and fi...

August 18, 2023

Middle East

New $370 million data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility in Salalah, Oman

A new data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility has been built in Oman for $370 million. Established in Salalah on August 13 by the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT), the center is part of the country's national infrastructure program. The da...

August 15, 2023

Oman

Tonomus establishes data center in Saudi's Neom city

Tonomus, a digital corporation within the new Neom city in Saudi Arabia, opened a data center. Neom is a plan to build a massive new smart metropolis on the coast of the Red Sea in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk. The Public Investment Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund, owns 10...

July 19, 2023

Saudi Arabia

e& and Orange are contemplating bids for 45% of Ethio Telecom

Two operators are reportedly interested in acquiring a 45 percent stake in Ethio Telecom. e& of the United Arab Emirates and Orange of France are exploring opportunities surrounding state-owned Ethio, as per Bloomberg, which cited individuals with knowledge of the situation. The publicatio...

July 13, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Saudi IT company MIS establishes a subsidiary data center

Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) of Saudi Arabia has established a new data center subsidiary. This week, the company's board of directors announced the establishment of a wholly-owned data center business in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The subsidiary will focus on administering, operating, and m...

July 13, 2023

Saudi Arabia

Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT

The Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi disclosed earlier this year that it had invested in liquid cooling company CoolIT. In May 2023, the company invested alongside KKR in the Canadian company, with the latter acquiring the majority of the cooling business. The terms of the acquisition ...

July 06, 2023

Abu Dhabi

Batelco announces Bahrain data center now 100% solar powered

Batelco, Beyon Group's telecoms unit, has announced that one of its facilities is now Bahrain's first 100 percent green-energy-powered data center.This news follows the completion of Phase 2 of the Solar Park at the Beyon Data Oasis at Hamala. The facility in Bahrain is now entirely powered by...

June 01, 2023

Bahrain

CtrlS Plans to Invest $18.1m on a Data Center in Odisha, India

CtrlS Datacenters will invest $18.1 million in a greenfield Edge data center in Odisha, India. On May 30, the corporation began work on the data center in the capital city of the state, Bhubaneswar. It is anticipated that approximately 110 jobs will be created in the city of Bhubaneswar as a r...

May 31, 2023

CtrlS Dubai

Batelco of The Beyon Group Plans to Invest in Two cables And an Additional Data Center

The Bahraini technology company Beyon Group intends to invest $250 million in two undersea cables and a new data center. The company announced this week that its telecommunications subsidiary Batelco had joined the SEA-ME-WE 6 consortium (Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe). Batelco...

May 19, 2023

Bahrain

ChatGPT identified as potential threat in water-stressed MENA

Although there are a number of innovative research programs targeting AI's vast resource consumption, for the time being, advanced AI-powered language learning models (LLM) like GPT-3 and GPT-4 require huge amounts of water to cool down. This is a serious issue in drought-prone areas with high...

May 09, 2023

Middle East

Pressure Sensitive Systems' Dubai arm announces launch of new data center

Pressure Sensitive Systems India, through its subsidiary Global Markets Insights IT Services LLC, has recently opened a new data center, Pressure 2.0 Cloud, in Dubai, UAE. The facility reportedly has a capacity of 20MW of IT capacity, spanning 194,000 square feet (18,000 square meters) and wil...

May 08, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Vultr expands in Tel Aviv with new data center location

Vultr has announced that it is expanding its global footprint with a new data center location in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company shared that this is part of a wider expansion plan to democratize access to cloud infrastructure. This addition means that the company now offers full-stack infrastr...

May 02, 2023

Israel

Du opens two data centers in the UAE

Du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has announced the opening of two new data centers, Kizad Abu Dhabi and DSO Dubai. These facilities have been built to expand its nationwide data center footprint and create better infrastructure for local businesses.According to...

March 29, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Damac plans to build data center in Amman, Jordan

Following an agreement with King Hussein Business Park, Dubai property firm Damac (previously Edgnex) has announced its plans to build a new data center in Amman, Jordan. Specific details regarding the project have not yet been shared, although they are expected to follow shortly. ...

March 28, 2023

Dubai

Alibaba Cloud to upgrade its Dubai-based data center

Alibaba has announced that it has signed a deal to upgrade its Dubai-based data center. Through its long-term partner Dubai Holding, the company is set to revamp the facility, equipping it with state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure. It will also reportedly offer a wider range of products and s...

March 13, 2023

Dubai

Global Data Hub partners with KAUST to launch first-of-its-kind data center

Dubai-based Global Data Hub (GDH), has announced the launch of a new commercial tier-III data center, in partnership with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The facility will span 27,600 sqm and have a minimum capacity of 14.4 MW IT load. Further, the two parties outli...

March 10, 2023

Dubai

Lightstorm Forms Middle East Partnerships With Kalaam Telecom and GDH

Lightstorm Telecom has begun operations in the Middle East after forming partnerships with Kalaam Telecom and GDH (Gulf Data Hub). Lightstorm is the digital network infrastructure division of the U.S. private equity firm I Squared Capital, specializing in constructing hyper scale networking in...

March 09, 2023

Middle East

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