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Core42 Powers e& With Sovereign AI Cloud Across UAE
Core42 has entered a strategic partnership with UAE telecommunications provider e& to deliver sovereign artificial intelligence cloud capabilities designed for
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The African Data Center Market Is Being Built by Foreign Capital for Foreign Customers
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The West May Be Missing the Gulf Energy Network Shift
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Core42 Powers e& With Sovereign AI Cloud Across UAE
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Bruce Schneier And Nathan E. Sanders Believe Data Centers Aren’t The Endpoint
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The Next AI Data Center Won’t Be Bigger—It Will Be Closer
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Future-Proof AI Data Centers With Hybrid Cooling That Adapts and Protects
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UAE’s Carbon Border Rules May Penalize Imported US GPUs by 2027
Artificial intelligence infrastructure purchasing is entering a period where the first question may no longer
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Morocco’s Gigawatt-Scale AI Push: Why North Africa Is Emerging As A New Infrastructure Powerhouse
Land, power corridors, fiber routes, and permitting mechanisms are already advancing across Casablanca, Rabat, and
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- Liquid & Immersion Cooling
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Why Hotter Cities Could Completely Rewrite Data Center Design
Data center design once relied on environmental assumptions that no longer remain consistent. Historically, operators
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Growth Story or Bubble? Israel Must Decide
Israel’s data center sector has entered a phase that few would have predicted several years ago. What was once a
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- Kiara Mandavia
Gulf AI Ambitions Are Literally Melting Into Türkiye
The AI Infrastructure Race Is Running Into Physics Air conditioning has quietly become one of the most strategic technologies in
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- Kiara Mandavia
Gulf Energy Crisis Destroys Myth of Stable Globalization Era
The End of Assumed Stability The Gulf energy crisis is not an isolated disruption. It is a structural stress test
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- Kiara Mandavia
Gauteng Is Rewiring Africa’s Digital Infrastructure From Inside Out
Gauteng, the economic center of South Africa, is seeing sustained growth in data center development, supported by increasing demand for
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- Kiara Mandavia
The Illusion of Energy Independence Is Fading Fast in Egypt
A Model Under Pressure, Not Collapse Egypt’s energy narrative is undergoing a quiet but consequential reset. Once framed as a
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- Kiara Mandavia
Infrastructure Resilience Is the Real Climate Strategy
Climate conversations continue to revolve around emissions targets, net-zero timelines, and carbon disclosures. Governments announce commitments, corporations publish sustainability frameworks,
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Red Sea Outage Scenario: Can Disaster Recovery SLA Survive on Modular-Only Architecture?
Enterprise infrastructure teams often evaluate resilience through the lens of facility uptime, replication frequency, and
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- Sanjana Mandavia
- AI & Machine Learning
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Middle East’s Increased Focus on Sovereign AI Could Redefine the Global AI Order
The Middle East is emerging as a formidable player in the global artificial intelligence landscape
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- Sanjana Mandavia
- AI & Machine Learning
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Big Tech and Big Oil Are Teaming Up to Build New AI Models
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond purely digital applications, and Big Tech and Big Oil AI
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- Sanjana Mandavia
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Why Global AI Startups Are Migrating to Middle Eastern Neoclouds
By early 2026, the landscape of cloud infrastructure for AI startups is shifting in unexpected
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Top 10 Impactful Players in Data Infrastructure Series: Part 4
As AI accelerates infrastructure demand, power delivery is becoming the defining constraint of scale. The conversation around data infrastructure is
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Top 10 Impactful Players in Data Infrastructure Series: Part 3
Speed has become the defining currency of the AI era. But in the race to deploy faster, scale bigger, and
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AI Impact Summit 2026: Leader Shaping Infrastructure’s Next Era – Part 2
As artificial intelligence evolves from experimental deployments into foundational digital infrastructure, the conversation is increasingly shifting beyond model performance toward
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