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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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 ... Read more...
du invests in SING subsea cable at Kalba February 20, 2026 Swapna Subramani UAE operator du has partnered with Cyprus-based Datawave Networks to land and invest in the Singapor... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
Oracle launches 1st OCI supercluster in Middle East to advance sovereign AI December 17, 2025 Swapna Subramani Oracle deployed its first Oracle Cloud Infrastructure supercluster in the Middle East. ... Read more...
South Korea joins UAE’s Stargate project, broadening AI infrastructure coalition December 3, 2025 Swapna Subramani South Korea agreed to collaborate with the UAE on Stargate, the multi-gigawatt AI data centre progra... Read more...
