Submer, a provider of end-to-end AI infrastructure, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Edgecore Networks, a global provider of open networking and AI infrastructure solutions, to collaborate on AI-ready data centre infrastructure opportunities across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META).
The strategic collaboration brings together complementary capabilities across critical layers of the AI infrastructure stack. Submer provides advisory and consultancy, data centre design and build, IT integration, power infrastructure and advanced thermal management, while Edgecore brings its open, high-performance networking portfolio, spanning AI/ML switches, data centre networking, optical networking and disaggregated infrastructure designed to support demanding, high-bandwidth and low-latency workloads.
As AI adoption accelerates across the region, the infrastructure required to support it is becoming increasingly complex. The rapid deployment of GPU-intensive workloads is driving higher rack densities, greater power requirements and significantly greater thermal loads, while Sovereign AI initiatives are accelerating the need for scalable, resilient and locally deployable infrastructure.
These requirements are making the traditional approach of designing facility, power, thermal management, compute and networking as separate layers increasingly difficult to scale. The Submer and Edgecore collaboration is designed to address this challenge by bringing complementary infrastructure capabilities together earlier in the design and deployment process.
“The AI infrastructure market is entering a new phase. Customers are no longer simply looking for individual technologies; they need infrastructure that is engineered to work together from the outset,” said Khalid Aljamed, General Manager, Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Submer. “As GPU densities increase, power, thermal management, networking and facility design become fundamentally interconnected. Our collaboration with Edgecore brings together complementary expertise to help customers approach these requirements as one coordinated infrastructure environment, supporting faster and more efficient deployment of AI capacity across the region.”
“AI workloads are reshaping the requirements for data centre networking, particularly as GPU clusters scale in size and performance,” said Mingshou Liu, CEO of Edgecore Networks. “Edgecore’s open networking approach provides the flexibility and performance needed for these environments. By combining our networking capabilities with Submer’s expertise in advanced thermal and data centre infrastructure, we can help customers address the broader infrastructure requirements of high-density AI deployments in a more integrated way.”
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are emerging as major centres for Sovereign AI investment, creating demand not only for compute capacity but for the underlying infrastructure required to deploy that capacity at scale.
The Submer-Edgecore collaboration is designed to support this evolution by connecting advanced thermal and facility infrastructure with open, high-performance networking, helping customers address the increasingly interconnected requirements of AI data centres.
