ScottishPower secures £600m from the National Wealth Fund for Eastern Green Link 4, a 2GW subsea cable boosting UK energy security and clean power capacity. Read more: ScottishPower secures £600m backing for major UK subsea power link
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A tribunal ruling could see public EV charging VAT reduced to 5%, potentially lowering costs for drivers and aligning rates with home charging. Read more: Tribunal ruling could cut public EV charging VAT to 5%, raising prospect of cheaper charging
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled a £2bn AI investment plan to make the UK the fastest adopter in the G7, boosting growth, infrastructure and innovation. Read more: Rachel Reeves unveils £2bn AI push to make UK fastest adopter in G7
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Shipping giant Maersk has suspended operations at Oman’s Port of Salalah after a drone strike on oil storage facilities, highlighting growing disruption to global trade routes amid the escalating Iran conflict. Read more: Maersk halts operations at Oman port after drone strike widens Iran conflict disruption
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While tokenisation promises faster settlement and fractional access, institutional capital remains cautious, reveals Adam Popat, CEO of SettleMint The post The infrastructure play behind Saudi’s real estate tokenisation strategy appeared first on Gulf Business.
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The partners aim to address this challenge through modular data centre designs that significantly shorten deployment timelines while maintaining operational consistency and performance standards The post Supermicro, EHC to build sovereign AI data centres in UAE appeared first on Gulf Business.
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The two companies will also pursue joint go-to-market initiatives, enabling Indian and global enterprises to deploy and scale OpenAI’s AI platforms. The post Tata and OpenAI to build 1GW AI infrastructure in India appeared first on Gulf Business.
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From a market-structure perspective, Natalie Hwang, founding managing partner of Apeira Capital, views the Middle East as a credible long-term host for compute-intensive AI systems The post From model breakthroughs to megawatts: Why AI’s real constraint is infrastructure appeared first on Gulf Business.
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New AI-ready submarine infrastructure strengthens the UAE’s position as a global data hub. Dubai, UAE, February 12, 2026: du, a leading telecom and digital services provider, and Datawave Networks Limited, a Cyprus-based independent subsea infrastructure provider, today announced their strategic partnership to land and invest in the Singapore-India-Gulf (SING) submarine cable system in the UAE. This next-generation subsea fibre optic network will deliver high-capacity, low-latency connectivity linking the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. The SING cable system will connect six strategic locations across the region, landing in
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Abu Dhabi, UAE — 29 Jan 2026 — The UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure and Agility have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on advancing energy efficiency and economic performance across data centers and district cooling operations in the UAE; strengthening the UAE’s competitiveness regionally and globally. The MoU was signed by His Excellency Eng. Sharif Al Olama, Undersecretary for Energy and Petroleum Affairs at the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, and Tarek Sultan, Chairman of Agility. As part of the collaboration, Agility will draw on control system technology developed by Phaidra,
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