Middle East and North Africa
5 articles
Enterprise AIA Corporate AI Strategy for 2026: From Pilots to Production
Most enterprises use AI; few run it at scale. A practical framework for moving from pilots to production, with a clear answer to the question pilots skip: where the inference capacity comes from.
5 min read
Data residencyData residency by design: pinning AI work to a jurisdiction
Residency rules for AI are moving from contract clauses into the request path. This article explains how to make jurisdiction a routing constraint that fails closed, what evidence a signed record of locality can and cannot give you, and how the rules differ across the EU, UK, MENA and APAC.
6 min read
Energy and placementEnergy, power and placement: routing AI work to capacity
Power and grid connections, not chips, now limit where AI capacity can grow. This article sets out what the IEA, the US Department of Energy and EU rules say about data-centre electricity, and why routing flexible inference to where power and capacity already exist is a policy and engineering lever.
5 min read
Telco edgeTelcos as AI edge clouds: inference inside the latency budget
Telecom operators have the sites, the fibre, the licences and the customer relationships that low-latency AI needs. This article covers how to split an inference request across device, edge and regional GPU, what a latency budget actually allows, and what a telco needs in order to sell edge inference to buyers it has never met.
5 min read
Voice AIVoice AI Latency Budgets: Serve Speech Close to the Speaker
People expect a reply within a few hundred milliseconds. A latency budget for voice agents, where each millisecond goes, and why speech recognition and synthesis belong near the user while the language model can sit further away.
4 min read