Ethio telecom and Italy’s Ascot Energy held strategic discussions to advance sustainable digital infrastructure in Ethiopia
01 April 2026
Gaetano Fasciana, chief technology officer of Italy’s Ascot Energy.
Ethio telecom CEO Frehiwot Tamru hosted a high-level strategic discussion with a delegation led by Mr. Gaetano Fasciana, chief technology officer of Italy’s Ascot Energy, to explore partnership opportunities focused on integrating advanced green energy technologies across Ethio telecom’s extensive national infrastructure.
The proposed collaboration aligns with Ethio telecom’s ambitious ‘Next Horizon: Digital & Beyond 2028’ strategy, reinforcing the company’s commitment to harmonizing rapid technological expansion with sustainable, climate-resilient infrastructure development that meets global environmental standards.
Find out more Everpure simplifies enterprise AI with Evergreen//One for AI and Data Stream beta
01 April 2026
Everpure, the storage and data management solutions provider, has announced Evergreen//One for FlashBlade//EXA and the upcoming beta of Everpure Data Stream to help organisations reduce cost and complexity barriers that can stall enterprise AI projects.
Evergreen//One (EG1) for AI now extends across FlashBlade//EXA, providing the massive performance, scalability and throughput required for large-scale training and inference. Complementing this, the Everpure Data Stream Beta–launching later in 2026–accelerates time-to-result by eliminating the friction of manual data movement with a direct, automated pipeline from data ingestion to inference.
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SoftBank Corp. announces Telco AI Cloud vision to build social infrastructure for the AI era
26 March 2026
SoftBank Corp. has announced a new vision, Telco AI Cloud, aimed at building next-generation social infrastructure for the AI era by leveraging its nationwide telecommunications foundation.
Telco AI Cloud is an AI infrastructure vision that integrates a large-scale AI data center platform powered by a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) cloud, an AI-RAN-based MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) platform, and a software stack for AI data centres called ‘Infrinia AI Cloud OS’. By optimising AI processing from training to inference and utilising its nationwide telecommunications infrastructure, SoftBank will build a distributed AI infrastructure that delivers low latency, high reliability, and sovereign capability (data sovereignty). Through its Telco AI Cloud vision, SoftBank aims to evolve beyond the traditional role of a telecommunications operator and become an AI infrastructure provider.
Find out more SoftBank Corp. evolves Telecom infrastructure for the AI era: From carrying data to orchestrating intelligence
23 March 2026
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2026, SoftBank Corp. unveiled its transition from a traditional carrier that moves data – raw, uninterpreted data packets – to an AI-native infrastructure provider enabling distributed AI workloads across edge and cloud environments.
SoftBank Corp. makes the point that, traditionally, telecommunications networks have been built to carry data, not comprehend it; static infrastructure designed to move information from origin to destination without understanding what it contained.
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