Carrier China entered into an agreement to provide water-cooled chillers to Alibaba Group for its data centers across China, with supply from 2018 to 2019.
JBS agreed to supply $1.5 billion of products to Alibaba's Win Chain over three years, and Danish Crown agreed to supply up to $400 million over five years. The contracts were signed at the CIIE exhibition in Shanghai.
Hangzhou Zhongheng Electric and Yimikang Tech. Group have won bids to supply equipment for an Alibaba data center. Zhongheng will provide high-voltage direct current and precision power distribution cabinets for about CNY 300 million, and YMK will provide chilled water precision air conditioners.
Covestro started collaborating with Chinese internet giant Alibaba to offer its materials on the Alibaba online platform, China's largest B2B marketplace.
Alibaba Group acquired Hangzhou C-SKY Microsystems, a Chinese supplier of embedded CPU cores, to boost its cloud-based IoT business. Alibaba increased its stake to 100%.