https://aidatacenterindex.com/ai-focus/inference/feed/ Chronological feed for Inference using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility. https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aramco-digital-groq-inference-data-center-saudi-arabia.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aramco-digital-groq-inference-data-center-saudi-arabia.html Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (TBD), Saudi Arabia | Announced | 500 MW — Aramco Digital is partnering with Groq to establish a hyperscale inference complex in Saudi Arabia that will deploy Groq's Langua ge Processing Units at unprecedented scale. Marketed as the "world's largest inferencing data center," the pro https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-taiwan-north-ai-cloud-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-taiwan-north-ai-cloud-region.html Taipei, Taiwan North, Taiwan | Planned | 200 MW — Microsoft is set to launch the "Taiwan North" Azure region for general availability in 2026, representing its largest investment in Taiwan in over 30 years. The region is designed to comprise multiple data center facilities and is specifica https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-czech-republic-prague.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-czech-republic-prague.html Prague, Prague, Czech Republic | Announced | 50 MW — Microsoft announced a major investment in Czech Republic (Czechia) cloud infrastructure in May 2024, committing CZK 40 billion (approximately $1.7 billion) to establish an Azure region in Prague. The announcement was made during Czech Prime https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-nigeria-lagos-announced.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-nigeria-lagos-announced.html Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria | Announced | 50 MW — Microsoft announced a commitment to establish cloud data center infrastructure in Nigeria as part of its Africa expansion strategy. As Africa's most populous country and largest economy, Nigeria represents a significant market for cloud and https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/bytedance-thailand-ai-data-hub.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/bytedance-thailand-ai-data-hub.html Bangkok, Bangkok / Chonburi, Thailand | Under Construction | 400 MW — In June 2024, ByteDance (the parent company of TikTok) announced a massive $3.8 billion investment to establish a major data center and AI hub in Thailand. This initiative is designed to localize TikTok's content recommendation engines and https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-brazil-sao-paulo-expansion.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-brazil-sao-paulo-expansion.html São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | Operational | 500 MW — In September 2024, Microsoft announced its largest single investment in Brazil, committing R$14.7 billion ($2.7 billion USD) over three years (2024–2027) to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure. This expansion focuses https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/apple-ai-private-cloud-compute-us.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/apple-ai-private-cloud-compute-us.html Maiden, Multi-site (North Carolina, Oregon, Arizona), United States | Operational | 200 MW — Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) is a purpose-built AI inference infrastructure designed for Apple Intelligence — Apple's on-device and cloud AI system. Unlike general-purpose cloud compute, PCC is engineered around privacy: requests are https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-austria-vienna-ai-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-austria-vienna-ai-region.html Vienna, Vienna, Austria | Operational | 120 MW — Microsoft expanded Azure into Austria with a new cloud region in 2024, establishing data residency infrastructure for Austria and extending the DACH (Germany-Austria-Switzerland) coverage footprint alongside existing German regions (West Eu https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-austria-vienna-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-austria-vienna-region.html Vienna, Vienna, Austria | Operational | 60 MW — Microsoft announced the launch of its Azure Austria region in January 2024 with a €1 billion investment commitment. The Austria region is hosted in Vienna and complements Microsoft's existing Germany and Switzerland regions to cover the Ger https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/ai71-ai-data-center-uae-abu-dhabi.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/ai71-ai-data-center-uae-abu-dhabi.html Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Operational | 50 MW — AI71 is an Abu Dhabi-based AI company that commercializes the Falcon family of models (developed by TII) for enterprise deployments. The company provides an API platform for Falcon models and customized AI solutions for governments, banks, https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/tiktok-project-clover-eu-data-center-norway.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/tiktok-project-clover-eu-data-center-norway.html Hamar, Hamar, Norway | Under Construction | 50 MW — Project Clover is TikTok's initiative to store European user data within European borders and segregate it from Chinese government access — responding to regulatory pressure from the European Commission, national data protection authorities https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-italy-milan-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-italy-milan-region.html Milan, Lombardy, Italy | Operational | 150 MW — Microsoft Azure Italy North, launched in 2023, is Microsoft's newest European cloud region and a cornerstone of the company's €4.3 billion commitment to Italian AI and cloud infrastructure announced in 2024. The region offers full Azure AI https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-canada-west-calgary-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-canada-west-calgary-region.html Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Operational | 80 MW — Amazon Web Services launched its Canada West region (ca-west-1) in Calgary, Alberta in November 2023 — becoming the first full AWS region in Western Canada. The launch complemented AWS's existing Canada Central region in Montreal (ca-centra https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-melbourne-ap-southeast-4-australia.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-melbourne-ap-southeast-4-australia.html Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Operational | 80 MW — Amazon Web Services launched its Melbourne, Australia region (ap-southeast-4) in January 2023 — the second full AWS region in Australia, complementing the original Sydney region (ap-southeast-2) that has operated since 2012. The Melbourne r https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-portugal-lisbon.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-portugal-lisbon.html Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal | Operational | 80 MW — Microsoft launched its Portugal cloud region in Lisbon in October 2022, backed by a €143 million investment commitment. The region was established as part of Microsoft's broader European expansion and provides Portuguese enterprises, govern https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-israel-tel-aviv-il-central-1.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-israel-tel-aviv-il-central-1.html Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel | Operational | 60 MW — Amazon Web Services launched the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region — il-central-1 — in August 2023. The region enables Israeli companies, government agencies, and global enterprises operating in Israel to run cloud workloads with local data resi https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/inflection-ai-midwest-data-center-us.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/inflection-ai-midwest-data-center-us.html Chicago, Midwest, United States | Operational | 50 MW — Inflection AI, founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, trained its Pi conversational AI using a high-density GPU cluster at CoreWeave's midwest data center facilities, backed by over $1.3 billio https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-argentina-buenos-aires.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-argentina-buenos-aires.html Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina | Operational | 40 MW — Google Cloud launched its Argentina region (southamerica-west2 / us-east5 subregion context) to serve Argentina's substantial digital economy, including Buenos Aires's outsized concentration of tech talent, fintech companies, and the contin https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-new-zealand-auckland-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-new-zealand-auckland-region.html Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | Operational | 40 MW — Google Cloud launched its New Zealand region in Auckland in 2023, providing the first major hyperscale cloud region with full data residency in New Zealand. The region enables New Zealand government agencies (which have strong data sovereig https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/sap-ai-core-germany-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/sap-ai-core-germany-data-center.html Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | Operational | 30 MW — SAP runs AI Core infrastructure from its Walldorf, Germany headquarters data centers, powering Joule — SAP's AI assistant embedded across S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, and other enterprise software. SAP AI Core provides the model hosting and inf https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-spain-madrid-east.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-spain-madrid-east.html Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain | Operational | 100 MW — Microsoft Azure launched its Spain Central region in Madrid in October 2022, backed by a €1.26 billion investment commitment. The region was established to serve Spain's enterprise market with local data residency, supporting compliance wit https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/kakao-ai-data-center-south-korea.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/kakao-ai-data-center-south-korea.html Ansan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea | Operational | 80 MW — Kakao's cloud data center campus supports KakaoCloud — Korea's third-largest cloud provider — and hosts the AI models powering Kakao's vast consumer platform (KakaoTalk, KakaoMap, Kakao T ride-sharing, and others used by 90%+ of South Korea https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-turkey-istanbul-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-turkey-istanbul-region.html Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey | Operational | 50 MW — Google Cloud launched its Turkey region in Istanbul to serve one of the world's fastest-growing digital economies and a strategically positioned country bridging Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Turkey has a population of 85 milli https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-chile-santiago-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-chile-santiago-region.html Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile | Operational | 50 MW — Google Cloud launched its Chile region (southamerica-west1) in Santiago in April 2021, expanding its South American infrastructure beyond the existing São Paulo region in Brazil. The Santiago region was Google's first cloud region in South https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-fredericia-denmark-ai-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-fredericia-denmark-ai-data-center.html Fredericia, South Denmark, Denmark | Operational | 200 MW — Google's Fredericia data center in Taulov is a hyperscale facility that has become a cornerstone of the company's European AI infrastructure. Originally opened in 2020, the site has undergone multiple expansions, including significant land https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-cape-town-south-africa-cloud-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-cape-town-south-africa-cloud-region.html Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa | Operational | 60 MW — Amazon Web Services launched its Africa Region (af-south-1) in Cape Town in April 2020, becoming the first major hyperscale cloud provider to operate a full region on the African continent. The region consists of three availability zones an https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-henderson-nevada-ai-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-henderson-nevada-ai-data-center.html Henderson, Nevada, United States | Operational | 150 MW — Google's Henderson, Nevada data center is located in the Las Vegas metro area, approximately 15 miles southeast of the city center. The facility opened in 2019 and is one of Google's Western US data centers supporting Google Cloud's us-west https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-switzerland-north-zurich.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-switzerland-north-zurich.html Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland | Operational | 80 MW — Microsoft Azure's Switzerland North region in Zurich launched in September 2019, alongside a companion Switzerland West region in Geneva. The regions were established to serve Switzerland's highly regulated financial services sector (bankin https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/alibaba-cloud-germany-frankfurt-eu-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/alibaba-cloud-germany-frankfurt-eu-region.html Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | Operational | 70 MW — Alibaba Cloud operates its European hub in Frankfurt, Germany, hosting data center infrastructure that forms the backbone of the company's EU cloud region. Frankfurt was selected for its status as Europe's leading internet exchange (DE-CIX, https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-bahrain-me-south-1-ai-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-bahrain-me-south-1-ai-region.html Manama, Capital Governorate, Bahrain | Operational | 60 MW — Amazon Web Services launched its Middle East (Bahrain) region — me-south-1 — in July 2019, becoming the first major hyperscale cloud provider to offer a full region in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) area. The region consists of three av https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-south-africa-johannesburg.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-south-africa-johannesburg.html Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa | Operational | 60 MW — Microsoft Azure launched its South Africa North region in Johannesburg in October 2019 alongside a companion South Africa West region in Cape Town — becoming the first major hyperscale cloud provider to establish full cloud regions on the A https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/huawei-cloud-europe-germany-frankfurt.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/huawei-cloud-europe-germany-frankfurt.html Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | Operational | 50 MW — Huawei Cloud operates its primary European region from Frankfurt, Germany — the continent's leading internet exchange hub. The region supports Huawei's international cloud business for European enterprise customers and provides the infrastr https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-south-korea-ai-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-south-korea-ai-region.html Seoul, Seoul, South Korea | Operational | 200 MW — Microsoft Azure Korea Central — the Seoul region — is Microsoft's primary South Korean cloud and AI infrastructure hub, launched in 2017 alongside the paired Korea South (Busan) region. Operating facilities in the Seoul metropolitan area, i https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-uk-south-london.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-uk-south-london.html London, Greater London, United Kingdom | Operational | 500 MW — Microsoft Azure UK South — the London region — is Microsoft's primary UK cloud and AI data center, launched in 2016 alongside the paired UK West (Cardiff) region. The London facilities span multiple data centers in the Thames Valley and Gre https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/alibaba-cloud-japan-ai-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/alibaba-cloud-japan-ai-region.html Tokyo, Kanto, Japan | Operational | 80 MW — Alibaba Cloud's Japan region, operating from Tokyo since 2016, serves the company's Japanese enterprise customer base and acts as a gateway for Chinese companies doing AI business in Japan. The Japan region hosts Alibaba's AI Platform PAI ( https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/meta-prineville-oregon-ai-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/meta-prineville-oregon-ai-data-center.html Prineville, Oregon, United States | Operational | 300 MW — Meta's Prineville data center in Central Oregon was the company's first custom-designed data center, built to specification rather than leased. Opened in 2011, it pioneered the Open Compute Project (OCP) — Meta's initiative to open-source h https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/dc-blox-conyers-ai-campus-georgia.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/dc-blox-conyers-ai-campus-georgia.html Conyers, Georgia, United States | Under Construction | 216 MW — DC BLOX’s Conyers campus is a 216 MW facility (144 MW critical load) located east of Atlanta, Georgia. The first phase of the development is scheduled for delivery in 2026, specifically targeting the demand for AI-optimized colocation and h https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/hetzner-nuremberg-ai-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/hetzner-nuremberg-ai-data-center.html Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany | Operational | 150 MW — Hetzner's Nuremberg Data Center Park (NUE) is the company's primary campus and one of Europe's largest independent data center parks operated by a mid-size cloud provider. Nuremberg has been Hetzner's home city since the company's founding https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/epldt-vitro-general-trias-ai-campus.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/epldt-vitro-general-trias-ai-campus.html General Trias, Cavite, Philippines | Planned | 100 MW — ePLDT's VITRO General Trias is a 100 MW hyperscale AI campus in Cavite, Philippines, scheduled to begin construction in 2026. The $1 billion facility follows the successful launch of VITRO Sta. Rosa and is part of a national strategy to bui https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/batelco-qareeb-bahrain-edge-ai-dc.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/batelco-qareeb-bahrain-edge-ai-dc.html Southern Governorate, Southern Governorate, Bahrain | Operational | 10 MW — Launched in January 2026, Bahrain’s first Edge AI-ready data center is a strategic partnership between Batelco (under the Beyon brand) and Qareeb Data Centers. Located within the 140,000-square-meter Beyon "Data Oasis" in Southern Bahrain, https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-christmas-island-ai-data-node.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-christmas-island-ai-data-node.html Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, Australia | Planned | 7 MW — Google is developing a specialized 7 MW AI data node on Christmas Island, an Australian external territory located approximately 2,650 km northwest of Perth in the northeastern Indian Ocean — closer to Java, Indonesia than to the Australian