Middle East
NodeShift collaborates with Qareeb Data Centers
At the VivaTech UAE Pavilion, NodeShift and Qareeb Data Centers signed a Memorandum of Understanding, witnessed by H.E. Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, UAE Minister of Economy. The partnership sets the stage for regionally hosted, ultra-efficient AI training and inference, the development of AI-ready cloud zones prioritising compliance and low latency, and joint R&D on sustainable, edge-optimised data centre architecture. This collaboration aims to deliver faster, smarter services for customers across the Middle East, backed by infrastructure built for the future…Read more
UAE
Adnoc CEO calls for electricity grid overhaul amid $440Bn US investment pledge
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) CEO and UAE Minister of Industry and Technology, Sultan Al Jaber, has urged a major overhaul of the electricity grid to support the rising energy demands of AI. Speaking in Washington, he announced that Adnoc’s investment arm, XRG, will invest $440Bn in the US energy sector over the next decade – a sixfold increase. Warning that current grids are outdated and unable to handle the power needs of AI-driven infrastructure, such as hyperscale data centres that can consume as much electricity as entire cities, Al Jaber emphasised the urgency of large-scale investment and collaboration (between the UAE and US) across energy, technology, and policy sectors to modernise power delivery and meet future demand…Read more
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APAC
APAC to overtake the US and become the world’s largest colo market by 2030
In a recent report, Cushman and Wakefield has estimated that APAC will become the world’s largest colo market before 2030, leading the way on total capacity and rental revenue. The report claims that by the end of the decade, APAC will possess 23,904MW of capacity, overtaking the 18,256MW of expected capacity by the US. In the same timeframe, 72% of APAC’s annual data centre rental revenue – c.$44Bn – is expected to come from its five largest markets: Japan, the Chinese mainland, Australia, India, and Malaysia. Despite currently serving significantly more people per MW than the US (350,000 vs. 19,314), APAC’s capacity gap is expected to narrow by 2030, with population per MW dropping to around 158,000. The region also has the highest share of colocation facilities globally (85%), though this lead may reduce slightly as U.S. hyperscalers increasingly turn to colos to support growing cloud and AI demands…Read more