Water is emerging as a critical constraint on the world’s biggest growth ambitions, from artificial intelligence and the energy transition to food security and rapidly expanding cities, as governments and investors confront a huge financing gap in water infrastructure.
The sold-out inaugural edition of Ai Everything Abu Dhabi will bring together the most advanced frontier models, AI-native governance, and business use-cases from over 60 countries.
Saudi Energy has signed three strategic agreements at LEAP 2026 with HUMAIN, center3 and Huawei to strengthen energy and digital infrastructure for Saudi Arabia’s expanding AI and data centre sector, supporting future capacity, investment and technological growth.
Daikin Applied Europe and CTS Group on Thursday announced a patented cooling concept jointly developed to support high energy efficiency in data centres. The solution is designed to address some of the sector’s most pressing cost, capacity and sustainability challenges.
Submer, a provider of end-to-end AI infrastructure, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Edgecore Networks, a global provider of open networking and AI infrastructure solutions, to collaborate on AI-ready data centre infrastructure opportunities across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META).
Meeza, a leading data centre and managed IT services provider, has announced that it has secured an additional QAR1.6 billion ($432 million) in funding from Qatar's Dukhan Bank to accelerate the delivery of its data centres, which will together add 44MW of capacity to its portfolio.
Storm Group, a Swiss-headquartered AI data centre infrastructure company, has appointed Reza Nedjatian as its Chief Executive Officer. Reza brings more than 15 years' experience developing and delivering large-scale power and digital infrastructure projects across Mena and North America regions to the role.
Qualcomm and Meta have announced a joint collaboration on a multi-generation roadmap for CPU products supporting Meta’s growing compute footprint. Qualcomm’s first-generation Dragonfly C1000 CPU will be in production starting in the second half of 2028.
NHC Innovation, a leading Saudi provider of integrated digital services, has signed partnership deals with leading Chinese companies Huawei, Lenovo and ByteDance at a key event in Shenzhen. The agreements span AI, hitech data centres, knowledge transfer and smart city solutions.
Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority has entered into an agreement with Dutch group Volt for setting up an AI-ready data centre facility in Dubai Silicon Oasis. Under this, DIEZ will provide land and core infrastructure, while Volt UAE will be responsible for the development, finance and lead construction of these facilities.
