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Reserve Bank of Australia to relocate colocation facility

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) recently announced plans to decommission its head office data center in Sydney and relocate to a colocation facility. Moreso, other RBA data centers will get an all-new core infrastructure, and the Bank will migrate all of its applications and workloads to t...

January 08, 2024

Australia

Semi-conducor-related facilities in Japan suffer damage from 7.6 magnitude earthquake

Findings by analyst house TrendForece found that several semiconductor-related facilities in Japan have been affected by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the Ishikawa region on the first day of the year. Multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) manufacturer Taiyo Yuden; silicon wafer producers...

January 05, 2024

Japan

TSMC chairman to retire next year

TSMC chairman Mark Liu will retire next year after holding the position since 2018, replacing the semiconductor manufacturer’s founder Morris Chang who retired the same year. Now, the board has recommended that the company’s current CEO and vice chairman, C.C. Wei replace Liu as chairman. On ...

December 29, 2023

Taiwan

Arm begins job cuts across China

British semiconductor and software company Arm has laid off more than 70 software engineers based in China due to a downturn in the country's sales of devices such as smartphones and personal computers. In 2022, the company announced that it would cut about 1000 jobs, about 15 percent of its o...

December 27, 2023

China

Singapore considers making data centers and clouds "critical infrastructure"

Singapore’s government is currently contemplating marking data centers and clouds as "critical infrastructure,” and extending oversight to cloud service providers and data center operators. A decision in this regard is expected to be made by January 15, 2024. Currently, the Cybersecurity Age...

December 22, 2023

Singapore

Datagrid names Perrine Dhallum as CEO

New Zealand’s Datagrid announced this week that it has appointed Perrine Dhalluin as its new CEO, replacing Ludovic Hutier. Dhalluin was the CEO at Pacific Islands telecoms firm Intelia, before she left the role in November 2022, joining BW Digital as chief network officer. She has also held p...

December 16, 2023

New Zealand

Seraya Partners reaches goal of $800 million APAC funding

Singapore-based Seraya Partners has closed an $800 million fund dedicated to digital infrastructure and energy transition investments. Half of the fund has already been dedicated to three companies: data center operator Empyrion DC, offshore wind vessel operator Cyan Renewables, and solar, win...

December 14, 2023

Singapore

GSD raises $270m green financing for Malaysian facility

Chinese data center developer and operator GDS has raised MYR1.27 billion ($270m) in green financing for its Nusajaya Tech Park data center in Malaysia. The finance was secured from four financial institutions: UOB Malaysia, Bank of China (Malaysia) Berhad, OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad, and Sta...

December 08, 2023

Malaysia

Malaysian telco Axiata to exit Nepalese market

Malaysian telco Axiata Group Berhad announced last week that it has entered into an unconditional sale and purchase agreement with Spectrlite UK Limited for the sale of Reynolds Holding Limited, which owns approximately 80 percent equity stake in Ncell Axiata Limited. The company mentioned th...

December 04, 2023

Malaysia

Mitratel acquires over 800 towers from Gametraco for $113 million

Jakarta-based PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi Tbk (Mitratel) revealed last week that it recently acquired 803 towers from infrastructure operator PT Gametraco Tunggal for around $113 million. The Telkom Indonesia subsidiary noted that this acquisition includes 1.327 tenants, confirming that 562 ...

December 03, 2023

Jakarta

Rest Super invests in Quinbrook data center

Australian superannuation fund Rest Super announced this week that it is investing $656 million in a data center and battery storage project from Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners in Brisbane. This investment will expose it to several assets, including solar and battery projects, green data s...

November 25, 2023

Australia

Graphcore discontinues China business, pulls out of the country

British chipmaker Graphcore has announced that it will pull out of China in the face of US export controls. The chipmaker is now letting go of most of its staff in China and discontinuing business there. This is another setback to the company, which is already struggling as it revealed in Octo...

November 24, 2023

China

CapitaLand India Trust secures $155m loan for data center development

Singapore's CapitaLand India Trust (CLINT) has secured a Rs 1,300 crore ($155.9m) five-year construction loan to develop its data center facility in Navi Mumbai. India. This fund, secured by J.P. Morgan India, will be used to finance the first phase of construction of the data center. Sanjeev ...

November 14, 2023

India / Bhārata

Naver launches 270MW data center in Sejong, South Korea

South Korean technology firm Naver held an opening event for the first phase of its Sejong campus, its second major campus in Korea. This campus, currently spanning 290,000 square meters, is expected to reach 270MW of capacity at densities of 20kW and can reportedly hold 600,000 servers, runni...

November 09, 2023

South Korea

Gaw & Sinar Primera to construct new DC facility in Batam, Indonesia

Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners and Indonesian developer Sinar Primera announced a partnership this week to build a data center in Batam, Indonesia. Gaw will be acting as the primary investor in this partnership with Sinar Primera as the development manager will take a min...

November 03, 2023

Batam

DC fire kills three and takes millions offline

A fire that broke out on the 13th floor of the 14-story Khawaja Tower in the Mohakali district of the Bangladesh capital yesterday killed three people and severely disrupted the Internet in Bangladesh. The fire broke out at 16:58, and the Dhaka fire department arrived at the location at 17:07 ...

October 27, 2023

Bangladesh

VNPT unveils new DC campus outside Hanoi

State-owned telco Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) announced the launch of a new 23,000-square-meter data center campus outside Hanoi this week. The new Tier III facility known as VNPT IDC Hoa Lac – in the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park in the Thach That district, Ha Tay province, can...

October 27, 2023

Vietnam

Indian DC company to invest $2bn in Asia and Middle East expansion

Indian data center company CtrlS Datacenters plans to invest $2 billion over the next six years for its expansion across Asia and the Middle East. The company plans to add 350MW of AI and cloud-ready hyperscale data center capacity to its existing 234MW capacity. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder ...

October 16, 2023

India / Bhārata

6Estates launches Nvidia DGX BasePOD for AI offerings

Singaporean large language model provider 6Estates recently launched an Nvidia DGX BasePOD based on Nvidia GCX H100 systems to develop its AI offerings. The company will use this BasePOD for its "Model Solutions" offering, which provides users with personalized large language models. The clust...

October 11, 2023

Singapore

DLF to invest in Noida data center and IT park expansion

India's DLF has revealed plans to invest Rs 3,400 crore in its DLF Techpark and data centers in Noida, India. This park, located in Sector 143 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, spans over 25 acres as over 1.2 million square feet of housing, IT blocks, and data center space have been constructed on it s...

October 09, 2023

India / Bhārata

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