Alibaba Cloud is continuing its global rollout of data centers, announcing the launch of a third site in Malaysia. The Chinese cloud company also revealed that it will launch a second data center in the Philippines in October this year.

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing services and artificial intelligence (AI) arm of Alibaba Group Holding, unveiled plans to launch new data centres in Malaysia and the Philippines, as it expands infrastructure investments to meet the growing demand for AI in the region.

Alibaba Cloud is adding data centres in Southeast Asia and plans to train 100,000 AI workers and invest $53B globally.