China's Alibaba?has opened two data centres in London, bringing its business into the UK for the first time.The e-commerce giant has been working to expand its cloud computing¹ arm in Europe in recent months, and has also opened centres in Frankfurt this year.

中国的阿里巴巴在伦敦开设了两个数据中心，首次将业务带入英国。这个电子商务巨头近几个月一直致力于扩大其在欧洲的云计算部门，今年还在法兰克福开设了中心。

The London operations will offer 24/7 on-site support, including security and engineering, the group said.

阿里巴巴称，伦敦运营部将提供24/7全天的现场支持，包括安全和工程。

The Chinese group is competing with Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM to become the world's biggest cloud computing business – it currently ranks fifth.

这个中国集团正在与亚马逊，微软，谷歌和IBM竞争，打算成为全球最大的云计算业务公司 - 目前，它的排名在第五位。

Alibaba Cloud's EMEA general manager, Yeming Wang, said: “Our expansion into the United Kingdom, and by extension into Europe, is in direct response to the rapidly increasing demands we have seen for local facilities within the region.

阿里巴巴云集团欧洲，中东和非洲地区总经理王烨明表示：“我们在英国的扩张，以及在欧洲的扩张，直接响应了我们对该地区当地设施的快速增长的需求。

“Using AI-powered and data-driven technology, our latest data centres will offer customers complete access to our wide range of cloud services, from machine learning capabilities² to predictive data analytics, ensuring that we continue to offer an unparalleled level of service. We are incredibly proud to take this latest step in our continued investment in EMEA.”

“通过使用人工智能和数据驱动技术，我们最新的数据中心将为客户提供我们广泛的云服务，从机器学习功能到预测数据分析，确保我们继续提供无与伦比的服务水平。我们非常自豪地采取了对此分部持续投资的最新举措。

“ Last month, Alibaba founder³ Jack⁴ Ma announced that he was retiring.

上个月，阿里巴巴创始人马云宣布他即将退休。

He said at the time: “There's a lot of things I can learn from Bill Gates. I can never be as rich, but one thing I can do better is to retire earlier.

他当时说：“我可以从比尔盖茨那里学到很多东西。我永远不会像他那么富有，但我能做得更好的一件事就是早点退休。

“I think some day, and soon, I'll go back to teaching. This is something I think I can do much better than being CEO of Alibaba.”

我想很快有一天，我会回去教学。这是我认为我可以比做阿里巴巴首席执行官做得更好的事情。