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Jan, 2026 : iXAfrica Partners With Oracle on Kenya Cloud Region
📅 - Kenya is set to gain its first public cloud region through a collaboration between iXAfrica Data Centres and Oracle, marking a significant milestone for East Africa's digital infrastructure landscape. The initiative, announced in January 2024 by President William Ruto and now moving into execution, will see iXAfrica host an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) region in Nairobi to meet growing enterprise and government demand for cloud services.
The partnership positions iXAfrica, one of East and Central Africa's largest hyperscale, carrier-neutral data center operators, as the colocation host for Oracle's public cloud deployment in Kenya. Oracle's selection reflects iXAfrica's readiness to [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Foley Report Flags U.S. Power Risks in AI Data Center Boom - A new data center industry report from law firm Foley & Lardner LLP is signaling a potential inflection point for the U.S. data center market, as the rapid expansion driven by artificial intelligence collides with mounting concerns over power availability, permitting delays, and long-term sustainability.
The law firm's latest data center development report titled ‘Data Center Outlook 2026: AI Demand, Energy, and Growth' examines how the AI boom is reshaping infrastructure investment across the United States and asks whether the pace of development fueling that growth can realistically be maintained.
The report, based on surveys and interviews with U.S.-based executives and experts across [...]
📅 - atNorth to Add Stockholm Data Center, Expanding Nordic Footprint - Nordic data center operator atNorth has announced plans to build a new high-density data center in Stockholm, expanding its regional footprint as demand for sustainable digital infrastructure accelerates across Europe. The project, revealed this week in Stockholm, will bring atNorth's total number of Nordic data centers to eleven and reflects growing enterprise and hyperscale requirements for energy-efficient, resilient colocation capacity.
The new facility, named SWE02, will be a 30-megawatt metro data center located near atNorth's existing Swedish campus, SWE01, which became operational in March 2022. The site will be developed in the Kista area, a well-established technology hub in the [...]
📅 - PENTA INFRA EXPANDS INTO MUNICH WITH NEW 20 MW COLOCATION DATA CENTER - The facility will be fully modernized and expanded into a state-of-the-art colocation data center with 20 MW of IT capacity. Designed to meet the evolving needs of customers, the facility will offer flexible deployment options including high-density colocation with liquid cooling for customers running AI and HPC workloads. The facility will be operational in 2028.
Munich represents a strategic expansion into one of Europe's most dynamic enterprise markets. The Bavarian capital is home to DAX-listed corporations, global automotive manufacturers, leading insurers, and technology R&D centers. As these organizations navigate increasingly complex requirements around data governance, [...]
📅 - Hosted.com: Green Hosting and Sustainability to Become More Important in 2026 - Green hosting refers to the use of energy-efficient infrastructure, renewable energy sources, and optimized server management to reduce the environmental impact of data centers. As websites and digital services continue to grow in scale and complexity, hosting infrastructure has become a focal point in broader sustainability strategies.
Industry data cited in Hosted.com's recent web hosting trends analysis indicates that businesses are reassessing the environmental impact of their online footprint, including web hosting, cloud services, and data storage.
SMEs are increasingly influenced by sustainability requirements from suppliers, partners, and customers. Environmental reporting [...]
📅 - Sharon AI Deploys 1K B200 Cluster at Melbourne Data Center - Australian neocloud provider Sharon AI has announced plans to deploy a 1,000-unit NVIDIA B200 GPU cluster at NEXTDC's Tier IV M3 data center in Melbourne, a move that significantly expands sovereign AI infrastructure capacity in Australia.
The deployment, delivered in collaboration with NEXTDC, Lenovo, and VAST Data, reflects growing demand from enterprises, governments, and research institutions for large-scale, locally hosted AI compute capable of supporting advanced workloads.
The new cluster will be housed at NEXTDC's M3 facility, a Tier IV-certified site designed for high-density, mission-critical workloads. According to the companies involved, the data center has been purpose-built [...]
📅 - Gartner: 35% of Countries Face Regional AI Lock-In by 2027 - A growing push for digital sovereignty is set to reshape the global artificial intelligence landscape, with Gartner predicting that by 2027, more than a third of countries will be locked into region-specific AI platforms.
According to the research firm, the share of nations effectively tied to localized AI ecosystems will rise sharply from just 5% today to 35% within the next three years, driven by geopolitical tensions, regulatory pressure, and national security concerns.
"Countries with digital sovereignty goals are increasing investment in domestic AI stacks as they look for alternatives to the closed U.S. model, including computing power, data centers, infrastructure and models [...]