Submer partnered with Edgecore Networks to collaborate on AI-ready data center 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 center 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 center 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 center 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 center infrastructure, we can help customers address the broader infrastructure requirements of high-density AI deployments in a more integrated way.”
By bringing these infrastructure disciplines together, the partnership aims to reduce integration complexity, improve deployment readiness and provide customers with a clearer path from AI infrastructure design to operational capacity.
The Middle East, Turkey and Africa region is experiencing accelerating investment in AI, cloud and digital infrastructure. In particular, national AI and digital transformation strategies across the Gulf are driving demand for increasingly sophisticated data center environments capable of supporting high-performance computing and dense GPU deployments.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are emerging as major centers 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 centers.
