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Capacity Eurasia 2024 Key Takeaways

Capacity Eurasia 2024 was the perfect networking opportunity for the Eurasian, Caucasus, Central Asian, and Eastern European digital infrastructure community to connect with each other and their international partners, build relationships and grow networks.

Here are some memorable quotes and key takeaways from our 2024 edition.

"What interests hyperscalers in the Digital Silk Road is getting access to the young population in Turkic speaking countries in the Eurasia region"

- Omer Demir, CCO, Turk Telekom International

"In the Eurasia region, installed data centre capacity currently stands at about 25-27 GW... in the coming 5 years, that is expected to reach 50GW"

- Aslihan Gurescier, MD, Turkiye, Equinix

Levent Gemici, Wholesale Commercial Functions & Roaming Segment Manager, Vodafone Turkey: "We actually met Damac Capital at Capacity Middle East last year and it took about 10 minutes to agree that we would partner on a data centre build"

Shamil Gabitov, Account Manager, China Unicom: "It's undisputed that subsea cables are now a matter of national security and that's why diversity of routes is so important"

Giorgos Chatzis, Business Development Director, Infobip: "AI is not here to take people's jobs, but it needs to be localised. We need to transform AI thinking into the local context, it's a powerful tool, but only in English language at the moment".

Miles McWilliams, Head Internet, Content & Security Solutions, Deutsche Telekom: "Enterprises demand that content should stay local and is not misused or abused, which is challenging for content providers"

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  • The Digital Silk Road project is being developed primarily by Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, along with other partners, to provide an alternative terrestrial fibre route avoiding the Russian Federation. The subsea segment through the Caspian Sea is planned to be operational by Q4 2026.
  • Seven new subsea cables are expected to land in Greece in the next 5 years, as well as additional terrestrial routes, amplifying the country’s strategic position in landing cables into Europe.
  • The domestic opportunity is growing significantly in Turkey, with the hype of AI spurring growth. However, there is a dependency on chipset availability and the biggest bottleneck currently is capacity.
  • Network operators in Ukraine have been forced to build several cross-border infrastructure systems to Moldova to protect connections and invest in resilience.
  • Turkey is doubling its’ data centre capacity, but needs to quadruple, in order to meet expected demand.
  • It’s not feasible for cloud service providers and content providers to develop hubs in every country, which highlights the importance of regional hubs built on partnerships and a collaborative approach to building new routes. Protectionism hinders progress.
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