Naver and NVIDIA Partner to Launch AI Data Center in Morocco for EMEA Region

Posted by By Dan Taylor 2 Min Read

Naver has announced a new partnership with NVIDIA, Nexus Core Systems, and Lloyd Capital to build an advanced AI data center in Morocco. The project aims to support AI computing needs across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

The first phase of the project is set to begin in the fourth quarter of 2025. It will include a 40-megawatt AI supercomputing hub powered by NVIDIA’s new Blackwell (GB200) GPUs.

Located just 15 kilometers from Europe and connected via undersea fiber-optic cables, Morocco was chosen for its strategic location. The data center will be powered entirely by renewable energy, with plans to scale up to a total capacity of 500 megawatts.

The consortium has secured a renewable energy contract with TAQA, an energy company, to ensure clean and sustainable power supply for the center.

Naver Cloud will manage the platform in collaboration with Nexus Core Systems and Lloyd Capital. The goal is to provide sovereign, cost-effective AI infrastructure tailored to European markets.

This move marks a significant expansion for Naver in the EMEA region. By working with NVIDIA and leveraging cutting-edge GPU technology, the partners aim to deliver high-performance computing for a range of AI applications.

The Morocco project highlights a growing trend of tech investment in North Africa, driven by the region’s renewable energy resources and proximity to Europe.

 

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Dan Taylor is the founder and editor of International Search Insights (ISI), the publication behind ReadIsi, and a Partner and Head of Innovation (Search & AI) at SALT.agency. He has worked in search for more than a decade, in-house and agency-side, and is regarded as one of the West’s leading voices on search engines beyond Google, including Yandex, Baidu, Naver and Cốc Cốc. On ReadIsi, Dan covers the engines and AI answer platforms that English-language coverage tends to miss: Baidu and ERNIE, Yandex and Alice AI, Naver, Cốc Cốc, Shenma, Sogou, WeChat and Weibo search, plus DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen. He also keeps dated records of documented changes, such as the Yandex, Baidu and Naver algorithm update histories and the DeepSeek, ERNIE and Qwen model update histories. His approach is to take learnings from global search engines and apply logic with a high evidence threshold. A claim needs a source, patterns seen in one market are treated as a hypothesis until they are checked in another, and where the evidence is thin he says so. For brands, that means advice built on what can be shown, with measurement that separates being cited from being chosen. Dan is credited with coining the term “edge SEO” and won the inaugural TechSEO Boost research competition in 2018 for his work on CDN and edge changes for SEO. In 2026 he was credited with coining “Infinite Tail” to describe how keyword research is changing with AI search. He is the author of AI Search Marketing For The Travel Sector, writes for Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land and Travel Marketing Guy, and has advised technology, SaaS, travel and enterprise ecommerce brands, including Cloudflare, GitLab and Airbnb. He has given multiple talks and panels at the International Search Summit in Barcelona, and has also spoken at Optimization Moscow, brightonSEO, Google Search Central Live Deep Dive Asia in Bangkok, Athens SEO and the Asia SEO Virtual Summit 2026, where his talk looked at how Baidu, Naver, DeepSeek, Tencent, Cốc Cốc and Yandex built their own AI answers.
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