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Alibaba Cloud to Launch Data Centres in Turkey, Finland, and Netherlands Within 12 Months
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Alibaba Cloud to Launch Data Centres in Turkey, Finland, and Netherlands Within 12 Months

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  • Alibaba Cloud will open new data centres in the Netherlands, Turkey, and Finland within the next year, expanding its global infrastructure to support enterprise AI adoption.
  • The first centre opens in the Netherlands in October, with additional capacity planned in existing markets.
  • The announcement was made by CTO Li Feifei at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, alongside new partnerships with Panasonic Digital, Unity China, Lion Parcel, Loomi Entertainment, and Shake.

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Alibaba Cloud is expanding its global data centre infrastructure to support growing enterprise demand for AI services, leveraging its full-stack capabilities in chips, cloud infrastructure, and multimodal models.

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Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud business unit, is set to launch data centres in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, speeding up an overseas push as it seeks to win enterprise customers through its “full stack AI capabilities” spanning chips, cloud infrastructure and multimodal models.

The first of these new data centres will open in the Netherlands in October. The cloud unit will also add to existing data centre capacity in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Hong Kong, said Li Feifei, the CTO and president of international business at Alibaba Cloud, at the company’s Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, which runs through Thursday.

“We are expanding our global cloud footprint to bring computing resources closer to customers and partners,” Li said, adding that companies were moving AI from experiments into real-world deployment.

The company also announced partnerships with firms including Panasonic Digital, Unity China, Indonesian logistics group Lion Parcel, Malaysia’s Loomi Entertainment and business software provider Shake.

Open Questions

  • What is the exact investment amount for the new data centres?
  • Which specific AI services will be prioritized in the new facilities?
  • How will the new centres impact latency for regional customers?

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This article was originally published by SCMP Tech.

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