{"id":1038132,"date":"2026-09-24T07:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038132"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:32:16","slug":"chinas-alibaba-launches-international-data-centre-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/chinas-alibaba-launches-international-data-centre-push\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Alibaba launches international data centre push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveiled plans on Wednesday to expand its overseas data centres, targeting markets across Europe and the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>Hangzhou-based Alibaba is one of the frontrunners in China&#8217;s artificial intelligence industry, with its Qwen model among the world&#8217;s most downloaded AI models. <\/p>\n<p>The company said it would &#8220;establish its first cloud regions&#8221; in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands, while &#8220;expanding its data centre footprint in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Hong Kong&#8221; over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveiled plans on Wednesday to expand its overseas data centres, targeting markets across Europe and the Middle East. Hangzhou-based Alibaba is one of the frontrunners in China&#8217;s artificial intelligence industry, with its Qwen model among the world&#8217;s most downloaded AI models. The company said it would &#8220;establish its first cloud regions&#8221; in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands, while &#8220;expanding its data centre footprint in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Hong Kong&#8221; over the next 12 months.<\/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-1038132","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\/1038132","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=1038132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038159,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038132\/revisions\/1038159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}