Arm China’s board fired Allen Wu in 2020 for alleged conflicts of interest - but he has refused to leave.

The growing war chest underscores Huawei’s do-or-die effort to develop chips, networking gear and even smartphones free of American technology.

The likes of Meta, Alphabet and Amazon are in the firing line.

Potential suitors include GDS Holdings and EdgeConneX, sources told Bloomberg.

Move comes as data volumes explode, driving demand for cloud services.

In the future, social, political, cultural, climate and epidemiological factors will have a far greater impact on the direction of technology, suggests Ben Hammersley from Agathonic.AI.

The pair will fund wholesale data centers in the US and Europe.

Vantage now operates 26 data center campuses across five continents, up from one geographic location in 2016. Here’s how it happened.

This is the first time a Russian entity has been added to a list dominated by Chinese telecommunications firms.