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Alibaba Cloud Plans New Regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands as AI Push Goes Global

September 23, 2026 at 10:59 EDT

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Alibaba Cloud said it will open its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands within 12 months and add data-center capacity in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Hong Kong, tying a wider physical footprint to its enterprise AI strategy. The expansion, announced at Apsara Conference 2026, is meant to bring cloud and AI services closer to customers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia while Alibaba competes for more local enterprise workloads.

Sep 23, 2026 · Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba pushes its AI cloud outward

New first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands sit alongside added capacity in five markets, making local infrastructure the delivery layer for Qwen, agents and enterprise AI services.

107

availability zones today

regions worldwide

first cloud regions planned

>20 GW

2032 capacity target

Chip roadmap: V900 vs M890

Zhenwu M890 baseline

Zhenwu V900 claimed performance

The hardware story supports a larger hosted AI plan, but the comparison is against Alibaba's own prior chip.

How the expansion is meant to work

Local regionsMove compute closer to customers

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AI servicesExpose Qwen, Wan and Model Studio

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Enterprise agentsRun workflows under local rules

What customers want

Lower latency, local deployment options and packaged AI tools for documents, coding, video and agent workflows.

What remains open

Site-level capacity, regional rollout details, prices and V900-backed cloud access have not been specified.

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