AIRTEL STARTS WORK ON 44MW EAST AFRICA DATA CENTRE HUB
Nxtra by Airtel begins construction on a 44MW sustainable data centre at Tatu City Special Economic Zone( SEZ) in Kenya. The facility is designed to position Tatu City as East Africa’ s leading data centre hub, powered by 95 % renewable energy.
“ Our £ 1.5bn( US $ 2.05bn) investment in the UK will establish one of the world’ s largest concentrations of state-of-theart, sustainable compute”
Michael Intrator, Co-Founder and CEO, CoreWeave
CHINA
UNICOM OPENS AI DATA CENTRE IN CHINA WITH LOCAL CHIPS
Chinese telecom China Unicom confirms the launch of a new data centre in Xining, Qinghai province. Announced on state broadcaster CCTV and reported by Reuters, the facility emerged from around US $ 390m of investment. The project reflects China’ s push to deploy AI and HPC using domestically developed technology.
£ 5bn
Google announced the opening of its new data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, as part of a two-year £ 5bn( US $ 6.82bn) investment programme in the UK
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