Saudi Arabia
Humain signs connectivity deal with Center3
Saudi AI company Humain has partnered with Center3 to deliver advanced connectivity services that support Saudi Arabia’s ambition to become a global AI leader. The collaboration ensures Humain can access the secure, high-capacity infrastructure needed to scale AI across all sectors, leveraging Center3’s expansive digital network, including 20+ data centres and 16 subsea cables. Backed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Humain plans to deliver 6.6GW of data centre capacity over the next decade, while Center3, a Saudi Telecom (stc) subsidiary, targets 1GW by 2030…Read more
UAE
du and NextGenAI launch region’s most powerful AI supercluster
At GITEX Global 2025, du announced a major leap in regional AI infrastructure through its partnership with NextGenAI, unveiling the Middle East’s most powerful AI supercluster. Building on its 2024 milestone, du has more than doubled its previous capacity with a new 13+MW NVIDIA B300 GPU-powered facility as its DSO data centre, featuring advanced direct-to-chip liquid cooling for enhanced energy efficiency. This expansion positions du at the forefront of AI innovation in the region, offering unprecedented computing power to enterprises and researchers. With immediate access to this live infrastructure, customers can accelerate complex AI and machine learning workloads, scale innovation faster, and tap into a new era of high-performance, sustainable computing…Read more
Interesting News
US data centre capacity leasing in Q3 exceeds entirety of 2024
US hyperscale data centre leasing hit an all-time high in Q3 2025, with a record 7.4GW of capacity leased and an active leasing pipeline of around 10.2GW, according to TD Cowen. This brings the year-to-date total to approximately 11.3GW – up from 7GW in all of 2024. The jump from just 2GW leased in Q2 marks a dramatic quarter-over-quarter surge. Oracle led Q3 activity with 5.4GW of leasing, primarily to support OpenAI, while Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Anthropic also secured significant capacity. Analysts described Q3 as the biggest demand spike in US data centre history, highlighting a major shift from the slowdown seen earlier in 2025, when firms like Amazon and Microsoft delayed or cancelled projects. One thing is for certain, the growth both within the US and the industry in undeniable and accelerating fast. But with this pace, are we set to reach a tipping point?…Read more
AWS outage sparks renewed focus on cloud resilience and sovereignty
A DNS resolution failure in AWS’ US-East-1 region caused widespread disruption this week, affecting banking, airline, and consumer platforms across the globe. Though services were restored within hours, the incident has reignited serious concerns about over-reliance on a few dominant US cloud providers – AWS, Microsoft, and Google. As the outage stemmed from a regional issue in AWS’ DynamoDB, the global impact revealed the vulnerabilities of centralised cloud architecture, particularly when key authentication and routing systems are concentrated in one location.
The incident has sharpened calls across Europe and the UK for greater digital sovereignty and investment in local cloud infrastructure. Experts warn that resilience cannot be achieved solely through regulation or regional control, true robustness lies in system design, including distributed architectures, failover strategies, and multi-cloud deployments. While sovereign cloud adoption remains limited, this outage may prompt enterprises to reconsider their cloud strategies. As policymakers and businesses grapple with the balance between efficiency, cost, and resilience, it is becoming increasingly clear that cloud reliability is now a matter of national and economic security…Read more