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Quantum Switch extends boardroom as $3bn emerging markets data centre rollout continues

Digital infrastructure developer Quantum Switch has appointed Mike Buckingham as its first Chief Operating Officer (COO). Buckingham joins the business from CBRE where he was Managing Director for the Data Centre solutions business across EMEA. Prior to that he spent six years at Google where...

April 19

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Saudi university opens country’s first on-campus commercial data centre

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has brought online a data centre in partnership with Dubai-based data centre space provider Global Data Hub (GDH). The ribbon-cutting ceremony has taken place at the KAUST Research and Technology Park in Thuwal. The facility, part of the Kingdom’s Vision for 2030, has been designed to address cloud services dem...

March 12

João Marques Lima

Kuwaiti $7bn real estate giant to build data centre parks across MEA

Real estate group Agility Logistics Parks (ALP) has unveiled plans to deploy data centre campuses in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Ghana. The facilities are to be built within ALP warehousing complexes in a sign of the growing real estate repurpose trend which is fostering the development of data centres in several markets. ALP has readied data centre campuses in its e...

March 07

João Marques Lima

Saudi Arabia wins over $5bn in major cloud investments

Saudi Arabia is making big investments in cloud computing with major commitments from companies like Oracle and Huawei. Firstly, Oracle has announced a US$1.5 billion cloud computing budget to improve its capabilities in the country and the wider Middle East region. The investment will focus on cloud infrastructure, digital transformation, and skills development. Orac...

February 13

João Marques Lima