2023 AI Data Center Feed

Microsoft is executing a A$5 billion (US$3.2 billion) investment in Australia, its largest ever in the country, scheduled for completion by 2026. This project focuses on increasing the number of data center sites from 20 to 29 across Sydney

Oracle has transformed from a database company into one of the world's largest AI cloud infrastructure providers. In 2024–2025, Oracle committed $50 billion to data center expansion and became the third partner in the Stargate joint venture

Meta's Eagle Mountain, Utah data center campus is a large-scale facility under development in Utah Valley, approximately 35 miles south of Salt Lake City. The site was selected for its access to renewable energy, land availability, and Utah

Microsoft launched the Poland Central region in January 2023 as part of a $1 billion investment in Polish digital infrastructure — its largest single-market investment in Central and Eastern Europe at the time of announcement. The region sp

Tesla's Dojo supercomputer at the Gigafactory New York (formerly SolarCity factory) in Buffalo is a purpose-built AI training system designed specifically for training Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) neural networks on video d

Tencent operates a 300 MW cloud and AI campus in Tianjin that underpins the company's large-model development and nationwide cloud services. The facility uses proprietary high-density liquid cooling to cut energy costs by roughly 30 percent

Microsoft Azure Italy North, launched in 2023, is Microsoft's newest European cloud region and a cornerstone of the company's €4.3 billion commitment to Italian AI and cloud infrastructure announced in 2024. The region offers full Azure AI

DeepSeek's AI training cluster in Hangzhou, operated by parent company High-Flyer Quant (幻方科技), gained global attention in early 2025 when its DeepSeek-R1 and V3 models matched GPT-4-class performance at a fraction of the training cost — re

IBM's watsonx AI platform operates across IBM's existing data center footprint in the United States and internationally, with key US nodes in the Washington DC/Virginia corridor, Texas, and the Research Triangle (NC). watsonx was launched a

KDDI, one of Japan's three major telecommunications carriers, operates the Musashino campus as its flagship data center hub in the greater Tokyo area. The facility has been substantially upgraded since 2023 to support KDDI's AI infrastructu

NEBIUS (formerly Yandex N.V., renamed after separating international operations from Russian assets) operates a major AI cloud data center in Mäntsälä, Finland — approximately 60 km northeast of Helsinki. The Mäntsälä facility was originall

Amazon Web Services launched its Canada West region (ca-west-1) in Calgary, Alberta in November 2023 — becoming the first full AWS region in Western Canada. The launch complemented AWS's existing Canada Central region in Montreal (ca-centra

Amazon Web Services launched its Melbourne, Australia region (ap-southeast-4) in January 2023 — the second full AWS region in Australia, complementing the original Sydney region (ap-southeast-2) that has operated since 2012. The Melbourne r

Microsoft launched its Portugal cloud region in Lisbon in October 2022, backed by a €143 million investment commitment. The region was established as part of Microsoft's broader European expansion and provides Portuguese enterprises, govern

Amazon Web Services launched the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region — il-central-1 — in August 2023. The region enables Israeli companies, government agencies, and global enterprises operating in Israel to run cloud workloads with local data resi

Inflection AI, founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, trained its Pi conversational AI using a high-density GPU cluster at CoreWeave's midwest data center facilities, backed by over $1.3 billio

Google Cloud launched its Argentina region (southamerica-west2 / us-east5 subregion context) to serve Argentina's substantial digital economy, including Buenos Aires's outsized concentration of tech talent, fintech companies, and the contin

Google Cloud's Bogotá region, launched in 2023, is the first major public cloud region in the Andean countries of South America (serving Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia). The region offers a low-latency option for Colombian

Google Cloud launched its New Zealand region in Auckland in 2023, providing the first major hyperscale cloud region with full data residency in New Zealand. The region enables New Zealand government agencies (which have strong data sovereig

Hetzner Online is Germany's largest independent cloud and dedicated server provider, operating two primary campuses in Germany: Falkenstein (Vogtland, Saxony) and Nuremberg (Bavaria). The company is known for aggressive price-to-performance

Mistral AI, France's leading AI startup and a major player in the European open-source model ecosystem, trains its models primarily on GPU clusters hosted through OVHcloud (France's largest cloud provider) and other EU-based infrastructure.

Scaleway, the cloud computing arm of French telecom group Iliad, operates one of Europe's leading GPU cloud platforms, specializing in NVIDIA H100-powered AI compute clusters in its Paris-region data centers. Scaleway is positioned as a Eur

The Condor Galaxy AI supercomputer is a joint venture between Cerebras Systems and Abu Dhabi-based G42, designed to provide an alternative to GPU-based AI training. Condor Galaxy uses Cerebras's Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2) chips — the world'

SAP runs AI Core infrastructure from its Walldorf, Germany headquarters data centers, powering Joule — SAP's AI assistant embedded across S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, and other enterprise software. SAP AI Core provides the model hosting and inf

The UK AI Research Resource (AIRR) is a national initiative funded by the UK government to provide sovereign AI compute for academic research and national AI development programs. The program spans two flagship systems: Isambard-AI at the U

Africa Data Centres (ADC), backed by IFC (World Bank Group) and the Luso Group, operates a carrier-neutral colocation campus in Kigali as Rwanda pursues its ambition to become East Africa's technology and AI hub. The facility provides the f

MareNostrum 5 is a heterogeneous EuroHPC supercomputer installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Its Lenovo Neptune liquid-cooled CPU partition spans 6,400 Sapphire Rapids nodes delivering 40 petaflops, complemented by accelerator n

AIRAWAT—the AI Research Analytics and Knowledge Dissemination Platform—anchors India's national AI infrastructure at C-DAC Pune. Commissioned in 2023, the system delivers 200 AI petaflops (mixed precision) and ranks 75th on the June 2023 To

NVIDIA is building the Israel-1 AI supercomputer to serve the country's fast-growing ecosystem of more than 800 AI startups. The system, deployed in phases beginning in late 2023, will scale beyond 2,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs arranged in HGX clu