Archive for the ‘MEA’ Category

du to land FIG cable in United Arab Emirates

May 15, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Ooredoo Group named UAE operator du as the landing partner for its Fibre in the Gulf (FIG) subsea ca...

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Pure DC presses ahead on Riyadh hyperscale campus

May 12, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Pure DC confirmed and reiterated the plans for the RUH01 campus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ...

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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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VOLT plans 129MW AI factory in Dubai, UAE

May 5, 2026
Swapna Subramani

VOLT UAE, part of Volt Datacenters based in The Netherlands, formed a joint venture with the Dubai I...

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Pure DC adds capacity at data centre in Abu Dhabi

May 5, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Pure Data Centres secured final TAQA approvals to expand IT capacity at its AUH01 campus in Abu Dhab...

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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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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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Ooredoo launches arm to focus on subsea cables and fibre

March 18, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Ooredoo Group confirmed the formation of Ooredoo Fibre Networks (OFN), a standalone entity to spearh...

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US-Israel war on Iran; implications for data centres and AI infrastructure

March 10, 2026
Swapna Subramani

The US-Israel-Iran war has reached its 1-week threshold with no signs of de-escalation from either s...

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AWS outage in UAE, Bahrain highlights regional cloud vulnerability, need for contingency plans

March 2, 2026
Swapna Subramani

AWS reported disruptions across its UAE and Bahrain cloud infrastructure regions after unidentified ...

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Ooredoo-Oracle advance sovereign AI cloud in Qatar with Oracle Alloy

February 26, 2026
Swapna Subramani

Ooredoo and Oracle confirmed expansion of a partnership and collaboration to deliver sovereign AI an...

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