2022 AI Data Center Feed

Saudi Telecom Company's cloud arm, stc Cloud, operates Saudi Arabia's largest national cloud infrastructure, serving as the backbone for the Kingdom's Vision 2030 digital transformation. The Riyadh data centers house AI workloads for Saudi

AWS opened the Europe (Zurich) region in November 2022, becoming the first major hyperscaler cloud region in Switzerland and a landmark moment for Swiss digital sovereignty. The region spans three Availability Zones across the greater Zuric

Lambda Labs operates a distributed AI cloud with GPU clusters across multiple US data centers, providing NVIDIA H100 and A100 compute to AI research labs, startups, and universities. Lambda is the leading alternative GPU cloud to the major

Google Cloud's Milan region (europe-west8), launched in July 2022, is Italy's first hyperscale AI cloud region and serves as the primary Google Cloud access point for Italian enterprises, government agencies, and the broader Southern Europe

Microsoft Azure launched its Spain Central region in Madrid in October 2022, backed by a €1.26 billion investment commitment. The region was established to serve Spain's enterprise market with local data residency, supporting compliance wit

Kakao's cloud data center campus supports KakaoCloud — Korea's third-largest cloud provider — and hosts the AI models powering Kakao's vast consumer platform (KakaoTalk, KakaoMap, Kakao T ride-sharing, and others used by 90%+ of South Korea

Google Cloud launched its Turkey region in Istanbul to serve one of the world's fastest-growing digital economies and a strategically positioned country bridging Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Turkey has a population of 85 milli

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi's advanced scientific research center, developed the Falcon series of large language models — which became the most downloaded open-source AI models in the world in 2023. The Falcon 40B a

Frontier is an exascale supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. OLCF describes Frontier as delivered in 2021, entering early operations in 2022, and built as an HPE Cray EX system with AMD E

Aleph Alpha is Germany's leading AI startup, focused on sovereign, explainable AI for European enterprise and government use cases. Its training infrastructure, co-located in German data centers operated with HPE hardware, powers the Lumino

LUMI resides in a repurposed paper mill in Kajaani, Finland, where abundant hydroelectric power and direct liquid cooling enable one of the world's fastest and greenest supercomputers. The HPE Cray EX system packs 10,240 AMD Instinct MI250X

Leonardo is a EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputer hosted at the Bologna Technopole and operated by CINECA. Built on Eviden BullSequana XH2000 technology, the system combines a 3,456-node GPU booster with 13,824 NVIDIA A100 accelerators and a

AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), programmatic region `ap-south-2`, is a cloud-region record rather than a verified single data-center facility. AWS announced general availability of the Hyderabad Region on November 21, 2022, describing three A

ASPIRE 2A is NSCC Singapore's warm-water-cooled HPE Cray EX national supercomputer. NSCC says ASPIRE 2A delivers up to 10 PFLOPS of raw compute, ranked in the November 2022 TOP500 list, and includes 352 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs for AI a

SenseTime's next-generation Artificial Intelligence Data Center in the Lingang New Area of Shanghai commenced operation on January 24, 2022. SenseTime says the AIDC has 3.74 exaFLOPS of designed computing capacity and brings the company's t

Tencent Tianjin High-Tech Cloud Data Center opened on August 26, 2022 in Bolong Lake Science and Technology Park in Tianjin's High-tech Zone. IDCNova reports a 10 billion yuan investment, 15,000 racks, and capacity for 300,000 servers, with