Alibaba Expands Cloud Business to U.K. With New Data Centers
- Chinese company opened two cloud-computing facilities in U.K.
- Alibaba is fourth-biggest rival to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
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The cloud-computing arm of Chinese retail giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. opened its first data centers in the U.K., with two sites operational in London.
The expansion is "driven by the rapidly growing customer demand," a spokesman for the company told Bloomberg. "The United Kingdom is one of the fastest-growing European markets for Alibaba Cloud."