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As artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital services accelerate, South Africa has an opportunity to position itself as Africa’s leading digital infrastructure hub.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

South Africa positioned to lead Africa’s data centre and digital infrastructure boom

As artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital services accelerate, South Africa has an opportunity to position itself as Africa’s leading digital infrastructure hub.

  • Ashley Lechman
3 min read
Chinese tech giant Alibaba will spend more than $50 billion (R921bn) on artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
ALIBABA

China's Alibaba launches international data centre push

Hangzhou-based Alibaba is one of the frontrunners in China's artificial intelligence industry, with its Qwen model among the world's most downloaded AI models.

  • AFP
2 min read
The interior of a data centre in Hamina, Finland.
DATA CENTRE

Google data centre sparks protests in Austria

While Europe lags far behind the United States in data centre capacity, there are already hundreds of data centres across the continent, with many more planned as it looks to…

  • AFP
4 min read
David Crisafulli said the company behind the Claude large-language model would set up in a new digital park expected to open next year.
ANTHROPIC

Anthropic signs deal for Australia data centre: government

David Crisafulli said the company behind the Claude large-language model would set up in a new digital park expected to open next year.

  • AFP
1 min read