P R O J E C T F O C U S

SPAIN

Oracle recently announced plans to invest more than US $ 1 billion to open a third cloud region in Madrid and drive AI skills development across the country . The new public cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners across all industries in Spain , including its prominent financial services sector , to migrate missioncritical workloads from their data centres to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ( OCI ) while helping them address regulations like the Digital Operational Resilience Act ( DORA ) and the European Outsourcing Guidelines ( EBA , EIOPA , ESMA ). Oracle says it is the only hyperscaler capable of delivering AI and a full suite of 100-plus cloud services across dedicated , public and hybrid cloud environments , anywhere in the world .

NORTH AMERICA

Arelion has announced it has upgraded its Kansas City , MO , Pointof-Presence ( PoP ) at the NOCIX 1530 Swift data centre , continuing its organic network expansion in North America . This upgrade provides Arelion ’ s wholesale and enterprise customers with multi-terabit scale 400G Wave services and additional diversity for low-latency connectivity into the thriving Kansas City tech market . Arelion ’ s network expansion serves the accelerating demand for high-capacity transmission services and scalable space and power due to the growth of Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) technologies and local startups in Kansas City .

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