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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

Korean Firm Solis-IDC plans Billion Dollar investment in India

South Korean firm Solis-IDC recently announced plans to construct a cutting-edge data center in India. Global Forum for Policy and Strategy (GFPS) will facilitate negotiations and representation on behalf of Solis in the Indian market as it looks to invest $2 billion in the country. The compan...

October 06, 2023

South Korea

South Korean Internet company Kakao completes DC construction

South Korean internet company Kakao has revealed that its first in-house data center, Kakao Data Center Ansan, is now completed and is ready for full-scale operation in the first quarter of 2024. The center partially opened in 2021 but officially completed construction on September 26, 2023. I...

October 03, 2023

South Korea

Globe Telecom bags $263m loan for network rollout

Philippines telco Globe has secured a $263 million loan with the Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company to finance its network upgrading and debt refinancing. In a press statement, the company had invested $660 million in Capex in the first half of this year. This investment was noted to be 25 ...

October 02, 2023

Philippines

Webel to construct new DC in West Bengal, India

West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) is considering a new data center in Siliguri, the Indian state of West Bengal. This new data center will be Webel’s third facility focused on promoting the IT and electronics industries in the Indian state. A senior offi...

October 02, 2023

India / Bhārata

CapitaLand Launches Massive Data Center in Hyderabad, India

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) recently began working on its 40MW data center in Hyderabad, India. The company announced that it has started operations for the first phase of the newly redeveloped International Tech Park at the IT hub of Madhapur.CLI hosted a ceremony celebrating the camp...

September 28, 2023

India / Bhārata

Philippines-based Telco Dito Secures $3.9bn Loan for Network Expansion

Philippines-based telcommunity Dito secured a 15-year $3.9 billion loan to fund the rollout of its network expansion through its parent company, Dito CME Holdings, from a group of multinational banks. The company announced that about $1.5 billion will be diverted towards repaying another loan ...

September 25, 2023

Philippines

DataVolt intends to construct a data facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

DataVolt, a new Saudi company, is planning a data center campus outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Local media report that the company intends to invest $100 million to construct a data center on three acres of land in the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City in the Kaliakair district of Gazpur. The announcement ...

September 19, 2023

Bangladesh

KKR is to pay $807 million for a stake in SingTel's regional data centre operation

On Monday, SingTel announced that KKR will buy a 20% share in its regional data center business for $806.87 million. SingTel and KKR said in a joint statement that the agreement values SingTel's regional data center business at $4.03 billion and will be utilized to develop in Southeast Asian c...

September 19, 2023

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

EdgeConneX secures $403.8m sustainability-linked financing for Indonesia data center

EdgeConneX has shared that it has secured $403.8 million in sustainability-linked financing (SLF). This loan is for its 120MW data center campus development in Jakarta, Indonesia.The deal leverages EdgeConneX's Sustainability Strategy and will reportedly use offshore US dollar borrowing. It re...

September 14, 2023

EdgeConneX

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