This Week's Top 5 Stories in the Data Centre Industry

Why Microsoft is Betting Big on Saudi AI Infrastructure

Microsoft has confirmed customers will be able to run cloud workloads from its Saudi Arabia East data centre region from Q4 2026, marking a significant step in the Kingdom’s drive to localise digital and AI infrastructure under Vision 2030.

Located in the Eastern Province, the new Azure region will include three availability zones, each with independent power, cooling and networking infrastructure. The design is intended to deliver high availability and resilience for government and enterprise customers seeking in-country data residency and low-latency services. Read more... 

ExxonMobil and Infosys Partner to Scale Immersion Cooling

As AI workloads push rack densities and power consumption to new highs, operators are rethinking how data centres manage heat. 

Infosys and ExxonMobil have announced an expanded collaboration to develop and deploy liquid immersion cooling systems aimed at reducing energy costs and emissions in AI and high performance computing facilities.

The agreement centres on the use of a proprietary dielectric immersion fluid developed by ExxonMobil. The liquid does not conduct electricity and allows server hardware to be submerged directly, transferring heat away from components more efficiently than traditional air-based systems. Read more... 

Meta Chooses Turner Construction for Indiana Data Centre

Turner Construction Company has been selected by Meta as one of the contractors for its US$10bn data centre campus in Lebanon, Indiana, a four-million-square-foot development designed to deliver 1GW of capacity.

The project has now broken ground, advancing one of Meta’s largest single infrastructure investments to date. 

The gigawatt-scale campus is intended to support both the company’s core platforms and its expanding artificial intelligence workloads, reflecting the growing compute intensity of AI training and inference. Read more... 

Tata Group & OpenAI Partner to Advance AI and Data Centres

The Tata Group, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and OpenAI have announced a landmark partnership aimed at advancing AI across enterprise, consumer and social sectors. 

The strategic collaboration will focus on empowering employees, driving industry-specific solutions and establishing cutting-edge AI infrastructure in India, further positioning the country as a key global AI hub.

A central aspect of the partnership will see several thousand Tata Group employees granted access to Enterprise ChatGPT. 

This move is expected to accelerate innovation and productivity across Tata Group’s vast range of businesses. Read more...

HUMAIN OS: Data Centres, AI and Saudi Digital Sovereignty

Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN has unveiled HUMAIN OS, an agentic AI-powered operating system designed to embed AI directly into enterprise workflows and run on the company’s expanding data centre infrastructure.

The announcement was made by Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, at the 2026 PIF Private Sector Forum in Riyadh.

While positioned as a software breakthrough, HUMAIN OS is closely tied to the company’s strategy of building gigawatt-scale AI data centres known as HUMAIN Core. Read more...