Dubai Airports will partner with Huawei to design and build the world's first Tier III certified Modular Data Centre Complex (MDCC) at Dubai International (DXB), it was announced today. The design and construct contract was signed during GITEX Technology Week, one of the biggest annual ICT trade. UAE telecom provider du and tech company Microsoft are to build a AED2 billion ($544. 54 million) hyperscale data centre. The data centre will be built in stages, gradually increasing capacity to satisfy rising demand, the UAE state-run news agency Wam reported on Tuesday. Huawei SmartLi UPS is a Li-ion battery power system designed for data centers. Driven by large-scale upcoming data center projects such as Microsoft & G42's data center expansion, du and Microsoft's hyperscale facility, Stargate UAE, the country is boosting its digital infrastructure. The UAE has attracted investments from major industry players such as Amazon Web Services. His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence of the UAE, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation, witnessed the announcement of a groundbreaking Dh2 billion hyperscale data centre.
