Technology news and insights in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
Technology News and insights in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
MTN Ghana will invest $1.1 billion over three years to expand 4G and 5G networks, build data centres, and strengthen AI and cloud infrastructure. The initiative aims to enhance digital inclusion, support skills development, and position Ghana as a regional digital hub in West Africa.
Kerno unveils UAE’s first enterprise-class IT manufacturing facility in Dubai Silicon Oasis, enabling local production of AI servers and enterprise infrastructure while strengthening technology sovereignty, divisions, and advanced manufacturing capabilities aligned with the country’s digital infrastructure ambitions.
Microsoft will enable customers to run cloud workloads locally in Saudi Arabia from Q4 2026, strengthening the Kingdom’s AI and digital infrastructure ecosystem while supporting Vision 2030 goals around sovereign cloud, innovation, and large-scale AI adoption.
Pakistan’s Digital Authority has partnered with the DFINITY Foundation to develop sovereign AI and cloud infrastructure, including a national subnet and AI platform access, aimed at strengthening data sovereignty, digital innovation, and AI-ready public services.
Khazna Data Centers has partnered with Presight to deploy an AI-driven facility management platform and centralised command centre, enhancing operational efficiency, resilience, and sustainability across hyperscale data centre infrastructure as demand for AI-ready digital infrastructure accelerates.
Saudi Arabia’s Humain and the National Infrastructure Fund have unveiled a $1.2 billion framework to build up to 250MW of hyperscale AI data centres, signalling a major push to anchor sovereign AI infrastructure in the Kingdom and attract global capital into its digital economy.
Bangladesh has launched its first public-sector shared GPU cloud, integrating over 20 NVIDIA GPUs to support AI research, higher education, and machine learning. The platform offers supercomputing-scale performance for universities and institutions, enabling model training, simulations, and inference without private infrastructure.
Arcapita partners with Cloud Capital to acquire a 21MW data centre in Minneapolis, with plans to expand it to 31MW. The facility is leased to a sovereign AI and cloud provider, targeting surging demand from AI, cloud, and enterprise transformation while delivering stable, income-generating digital infrastructure exposure.
Big Tech firms are signing record multi-billion-dollar deals across chips, cloud, and data centres to secure AI capacity amid surging demand. Major players including OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, Google, and Amazon are locking in long-term infrastructure to protect competitiveness and reduce future supply risks.
stc’s center3 and PIF-backed AI firm Humain have formed a joint venture to build and operate AI-focused data centres in Saudi Arabia, with capacity of up to 1GW. The partnership aims to deliver high-density, low-latency infrastructure to support large language models, mission-critical AI workloads, and the kingdom’s growing AI ecosystem.