Ooredoo is urgently seeking to acquire additional data centers to house Nvidia’s (NVDA, Financial) latest artificial intelligence chips, CEO Aziz Alsman Fakhroo told The Wall Street Journal. emphasized in an interview.
With support from the Qatar Sovereign Fund, the telco is aggressively increasing its data center capacity and leveraging strategic alliances to meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence-driven products.
In June, Ooredoo entered into a major partnership with Nvidia to achieve this goal, gaining access to the latest generation of graphics processing units. These GPUs will be installed in Ooredoo’s 26 data centers spread across Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Tunisia, and the Maldives. With this partnership, Nvidia will achieve the first large-scale artificial intelligence deployment in the MENA region and gain access to markets from North Africa to South Asia. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ooredoo hopes to adopt these powerful Nvidia processors to meet the rapidly growing need for enhanced computing infrastructure, especially generative artificial intelligence technology.
Despite strategic cooperation, Ooredoo has struggled to build new data centers fast enough to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure. The Wall Street Journal claims that the company is now focused on acquisitions as a more practical way to address these issues. Ooredoo has committed $1 billion to increase its data center capacity by an additional 2025 megawatts, to complement its current 40 megawatt capacity. Aiming to provide governments, businesses and startups across the region with access to innovative AI resources, Ooredoo intends to nearly triple its data center capacity by the end of the decade.
Apart from the partnership with Nvidia, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, the Indonesian arm of Ooredoo, collaborated with GoTo Gojek Tokopedia in November to introduce Sahabat-AI, an AI language model ecosystem to support Indonesian. Designed in collaboration with AI Singapore and Tech Mahindra, the project uses Nvidia’s AI enterprise platform to train and improve AI skills.
In addition to partnerships, Ooredoo’s strategic focus on data center acquisitions demonstrates the company’s dedication to driving digital transformation and innovation across the MENA region. By leveraging Nvidia’s cutting-edge technology and expanding its data center footprint, Ooredoo positions itself as a key participant in the AI and digital transformation scene to meet the rapidly growing need for AI infrastructure You can.
This article first appeared on GuruFocus.