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Alibaba outlined plans for its first cloud regions in Türkiye, Finland and the Netherlands in a September 25, 2026 recap of its Apsara conference. It said the regions would be established within the following 12 months.
The company also plans to expand its data-centre footprint in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Hong Kong. Chief executive Eddie Wu set a target for Alibaba Cloud to operate more than 20 gigawatts of global data-centre capacity by 2032.
Alongside the infrastructure plans, Alibaba said Qwen 4 was in training and introduced tools for deploying and managing enterprise AI agents. Its newly unveiled Zhenwu V900 AI processor was scheduled for commercial release in the first quarter of 2027.
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