Kazakhstan has accelerated preparations for its proposed Data Center Valley project in Ekibastuz as the country continues to attempt to position itself as a regional hub for artificial intelligence infrastructure, cloud computing and hyperscale data centres. Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov chaired a government meeting on May 25 to review progress on the initiative, which is ...

For the past three years, data centre developers have operated under the assumption that there is an infinite pool of capital available to finance the hundreds of billions of dollars of construction that is required to meet big tech’s AI goals. This assumption is now being tested. Equity investors have been drawn to the data centre sector as the underlying infrastructu...

This panel session examined the growing tension between national security priorities and the open innovation model that has traditionally driven technological progress. Chaired by Spiros Tassis, Partner at PotamitisVekris, the discussion brought together Charalambos Tsekeris, National Ethics Commission Chair, Member of the Greek Prime Minister’s Committee on AI, and Member o...