2020 AI Data Center Feed

Northern Virginia — and Ashburn specifically — is the world's densest concentration of data center capacity, and Microsoft Azure anchors a large share of it. Across Loudoun and Prince William counties, Microsoft operates multiple hyperscale

Alibaba Cloud's Zhangbei Super Data Center sits on the windswept Bashang Plateau in Hebei Province, 260 kilometers northwest of Beijing. The campus is specifically designed for AI training workloads powering the Tongyi Qianwen (通义千问) large

NTT Data's Singapore data center campus in the Jurong industrial district is one of Southeast Asia's largest hyperscale facilities, serving as a primary hub for AI workloads across the ASEAN region. NTT operates the Singapore facilities as

Google's Fredericia data center in Taulov is a hyperscale facility that has become a cornerstone of the company's European AI infrastructure. Originally opened in 2020, the site has undergone multiple expansions, including significant land

Google Cloud's Seoul region (asia-northeast3) launched in 2020, making South Korea Google's third Asia Pacific region after Tokyo and Singapore. With South Korea ranking among the world's highest AI-adoption economies — home to Samsung, LG,

Google's Fredericia data center in South Denmark is one of Google's longest-operating European facilities, first opened in 2020 and significantly expanded as AI workloads have grown. Located on the Jutland peninsula at a strategic point nea

Yandex, Russia's dominant search engine and internet company, operates AI training infrastructure across multiple data centers in the Moscow region and Siberia. The facilities power YandexGPT — Russia's largest language model — and Alice (А

AWS launched the Africa (Cape Town) region in April 2020, becoming the first major hyperscaler to establish a full cloud region on the African continent — a milestone for Africa's digital economy after years of enterprise customers routing

Google DeepMind operates AI research compute clusters in London, anchored at its headquarters in King's Cross. These clusters support training of frontier models including Gemini (jointly with Google Brain, now merged into DeepMind), AlphaF

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's South Korea region, operating from Seoul since 2020, is OCI's flagship footprint in the Korean market. South Korea's large manufacturing and semiconductor sector relies on Oracle's database-centric AI services

Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous vehicle subsidiary, operates large-scale AI training infrastructure for simulation-based learning — training its driving models on billions of miles of simulated driving data generated via its proprietary Waymo

Amazon Web Services launched its Africa Region (af-south-1) in Cape Town in April 2020, becoming the first major hyperscale cloud provider to operate a full region on the African continent. The region consists of three availability zones an

Amazon Web Services launched its Africa (Cape Town) region in April 2020 — the first major hyperscale public cloud region on the African continent. The region operates three availability zones, providing high-availability cloud infrastructu