Google has entered into a partnership with Turkish telecom company—Turkcell—to develop a hyperscale cloud technologies data-centre infrastructure in Turkey. Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. is the full legal name of the telecommunication company and the company is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey and founded in 1994.
The telecom announced in a public regulatory filing on Wednesday that it has formed a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to establish a new cloud region in Turkey, which will include a minimum of three interconnected network clusters by 2029.
According to the company’s CEO Dr. Ali Taha Koç, the agreement will enable Turkcell to become a global cloud centre. The partnership enables Turkcell to operate as both an infrastructure provider and a distributor of Google Cloud services in a market projected to grow roughly 20% per year, reaching an estimated value of $4.2 billion within the same timeframe.
This investment will also gives Google an opportunity to expand its footprint in Turkey—a fast-growing market.
Turkcell will invest around $1 billion through 2032 to support the partnership and the company is expecting that the data centre capacity should be more than double by the end of the period. The telecom company also aims to boost its cloud and data centre revenue sixfold in U.S. dollar terms during that same timeframe.
It's worth noting that the global hyperscale data-centre market is growing fast—it has been projected from high single-digit to double-digit CAGR—and major cloud operators are aggressively investing in this sector to expand infrastructures.
A hyperscale data centre is a computing and technological facility built to handle tens of thousands of servers and petabytes of data that are all operating together efficiently to power everything including AI computing, streaming platforms, online storage, and cloud services. These data facilities are typically owned and used by bigtech companies like Google, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, or Alibaba.
In a nutshell, the Google–Turkcell partnership will allow Google to expand its capacity and reach ties into increasing demand for cloud, AI workloads, data storage and global distribution of cloud services in Turkey. While Turkcell, on the other hand, will enhance its capabilities and competitive position in Turkey—possibly beyond—through the partnership.
