Alibaba Cloud to open its first regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands, eight new sites in all within a year
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Chinese SI infrastructure is expanding into Europe: there will be more computing for models in more countries.
Alibaba announced this at the Apsara conference: the center in the Netherlands will start up first, in October 2026, followed by regions in Finland and Turkey; there will also be expansions in Malaysia, Germany, the UAE, France and Hong Kong. Alibaba Cloud currently has 107 availability zones in 31 regions; the plan is backed by $53 billion in investment over three years and a goal of 20 GW of data centers by 2032.
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