Alibaba Group Holding‘s cloud computing unit plans to shut down its data centres in Australia and India, as the company prioritises infrastructure spending in other markets.
Citing the move as part of its “infrastructure strategy update”, Alibaba Cloud said the decision was made after a “careful assessment” amid new efforts to “expand investment in Southeast Asia and Mexico”, the company said in a statement on Thursday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
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