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  "id": 9271970,
  "title": "China's Alibaba launches international data centre push",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/chinas-alibaba-launches-international-data-centre-push",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-23T05:03:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/chinas-alibaba-launches-international-data-centre-push/articleshow/134426278.cms"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Alibaba is expanding its overseas data centres, targeting over 20 gigawatts of global capacity by 2032. The company's cloud business unit, Alibaba Cloud, plans to launch data centres in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands within the next 12 months. The first of these new data centres will open in the Netherlands in October, according to SCMP Tech.\n\nAlibaba Cloud currently operates 107 availability zones across 31 regions and has partnerships with several firms, including Panasonic Digital and Unity China. The company aims to bring computing resources closer to customers and partners, as stated by Li Feifei, CTO and president of international business at Alibaba Cloud.\n\nAlibaba Cloud was ranked the world's fourth-largest infrastructure-as-a-service provider by revenue in 2025, according to Gartner, and the largest in Asia-Pacific with 22.5 per cent market share. The company is speeding up its overseas push to win enterprise customers through its \"full stack AI capabilities\".",
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        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "China’s Alibaba launches international data centre push",
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        "published": "2026-09-23T05:17:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "China's Alibaba launches international data centre push",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/chinas-alibaba-launches-international-data-centre-push-9275232",
        "published": "2026-09-23T05:22:58.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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