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Data centres are hungry for power, and Alberta is pitching itself as the place to build

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Data centres are hungry for power, and Alberta is pitching itself as the place to build

Alberta is putting itself in the race for a slice of the soaring growth of data centres in North America. A pair of Alberta cabinet ministers set off for Silicon Valley last week with the sole focus of promoting the province as a “prime location” to build the physical structures that store and process our digital information. Major … Read more

Huawei unveils Arabic LLM, new data centre in Egypt as part of revenue diversification strategy

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Huawei unveils Arabic LLM, new data centre in Egypt as part of revenue diversification strategy

Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies has launched an Arabic large language model (LLM) and Egypt’s first public cloud service in Cairo as it eyes opportunities amid rising demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the region. The Arabic LLM, a 100 billion parameter model based on Huawei’s self-developed Pangu, has been trained with local … Read more