{"id":1034330,"date":"2026-09-10T08:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034330"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:14:09","slug":"egypt-moves-to-build-1-bn-ai-data-centre-with-nvidia-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/10\/egypt-moves-to-build-1-bn-ai-data-centre-with-nvidia-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt moves to build $1 bn AI data centre with Nvidia tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt is planning to build its first large-scale artificial intelligence data centre, aiming for a 200 megawatt facility worth $1 billion, using Nvidia technology. <\/p>\n<p>The project, announced on Wednesday by Egypt&#8217;s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, comes as the world&#8217;s two main AI rivals &#8212; the United States and China &#8212; vie for a greater foothold in the Middle East and Africa. <\/p>\n<p>The data centre is anticipated to start with a 20 megawatt facility worth $200 million in its initial three-year phase, built by a partnership between Vodafone Business, Elsewedy Electric, and Cassava Technologies &#8212; Nvidia&#8217;s main partner in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt is planning to build its first large-scale artificial intelligence data centre, aiming for a 200 megawatt facility worth $1 billion, using Nvidia technology. The project, announced on Wednesday by Egypt&#8217;s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, comes as the world&#8217;s two main AI rivals &#8212; the United States and China &#8212; vie for a greater foothold in the Middle East and Africa. The data centre is anticipated to start with a 20 megawatt facility worth $200 million in its initial three-year phase, built by a partnership between Vodafone Business, Elsewedy Electric, and Cassava Technologies &#8212; Nvidia&#8217;s main partner in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034356,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034330\/revisions\/1034356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}