Summary
- Alibaba Cloud is closing data centres in Australia and India to prioritize infrastructure spending in Southeast Asia and Mexico.
- Customers in Australia and India are being asked to move their business to data centres in Singapore and other countries.
- Alibaba Cloud plans to expand into key markets like Mexico, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and South Korea by 2027.
- The company still trails behind major US cloud rivals like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.