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Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence and cloud computing company, a major UAE tech group with partnerships spanning Microsoft, Nvidia, and Cerebras.
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Six months after strikes damaged facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, AWS says resources held only in Bahrain cannot be restored. Its resiliency guidance leaves cross-region copies to the customer to configure.
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The $7bn Poolside deal gives Nvidia a stake and a licence for the tools behind the model. The weights download free by the end of the year for anyone already running its chips, and the UAE's two AI institutions disagree about taking them.
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Housing Assembly and the UK nonprofit Foxglove challenged two proposed Equinix facilities in Cape Town in August, and they have asked the South African Human Rights Commission to halt hyperscale expansion countrywide.
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The Wall Street Journal puts StringZ Holding at 49% of WLTC Holdings and a Trump family entity at 38%, which leaves 13% for everyone else, with the OCC's signed non-control letters standing as the documented limit on that influence.
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A joint declaration signed on 10 September puts about 1 GW of new data centres inside a EUR 40bn Emirati pledge to Germany, with no builder, location or timeline given for any of it. The signed company agreements in the same document total EUR 9.356bn.
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Reuters reports that the single Abu Dhabi campus is becoming a network of smaller sites, with underground halls, blast-resistant concrete and air defence under discussion and no cost or schedule attached. The first phase is still going ahead.
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The listing is three years out and the fund is small against a build PIF no longer wants to underwrite alone, which is why the export-control reading of Humain's fundraising deserves as much weight as the discipline one.
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The Wall Street Journal says expanded export approval for an Armenian data centre helped secure last year's preliminary deal with Azerbaijan, which puts licence-gated compute schedules on a political clock.
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Bloomberg says executives have discussed an American majority shareholder. G42 already pulled Huawei gear out of its racks and wired US-specified monitoring into its own data centres, and each concession came with an expiry date.
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The deals that put capacity into the UAE and Israel closed weeks before the February strikes on Iran. What follows for tenants is a region-selection problem that uptime credits were never written to cover.
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Rest of World asked six AI observers about Meta's "AI for everyone" manifesto. The most concrete rebuttal was a paused data center in Kenya, not a philosophical objection.
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The first multi-wafer Cerebras system pairs a doubled clock with rebuilt power delivery and interconnect. The compute claims rest on WSE-3 Turbo dies that are otherwise unchanged.
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