Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group, announced the opening of its third data center in Malaysia on Tuesday and disclosed plans to launch a second data center in the Philippines in October, according to a statement yesterday. The expansion ensures that Alibaba Cloud can meet the rising global demand for secure, resilient and scalable cloud services, the company said. It has also announced infrastructure investments in Thailand, Mexico and South Korea.
Alibaba Cloud said it is also launching a global competency centre in Singapore to help accelerate AI adoption across industries. It said the centre would help more than 5,000 businesses and 100,000 developers access advanced AI models.
“Globalisation is Alibaba Cloud’s long-term strategy,” Alibaba chief executive officer Eddie Wu said in a recorded video message at a company event in Singapore on Wednesday, according to reports.
Alibaba will accelerate the buildout of its global cloud network in China, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Americas over the next three years, he was quoted to have said. The company is committed to spend more than US$ 53 billion to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure during the period. Alibaba has been investing in AI, building standalone offerings around its Qwen AI models, and growing its cloud services globally.
