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Read Sydney, Australia data facility occupied by TPG Telecom available for purchase
Sydney, Australia data facility occupied by TPG Telecom available for purchase

Sydney, Australia data facility occupied by TPG Telecom available for purchase

September 06, 2023 Australia

TPG Telecom is selling part of its Sydney, Australia, data center and office space. Interest submissions can be submitted to Colliers for 30 Ross Street in the Forest Lodge neighborhood until October 3. The building is an "infrastructure-quality asset" with a working data center and extra office...

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Read Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint
Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint

Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint

September 05, 2023 India / Bhārata

The Indian real estate development company Anant Raj will enter the data center industry. The company announced on its social media and local publications that it will invest $1.2 billion to develop up to 300MW capacity in the county. The company has set up Anant Raj Cloud Pvt. Ltd. as a...

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Read The Guam government will construct a Tier IV data center on the island
The Guam government will construct a Tier IV data center on the island

The Guam government will construct a Tier IV data center on the island

September 01, 2023 Guam

To enhance Internet quality, the government of Guam intends to construct a solar-powered Tier IV data center on the island. In addition, it intends to construct a new government data center on the University campus. This week, the Office of the Governor revealed the Guam Five-Year Action Plan for...

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Read Guam University to receive new government data center
Guam University to receive new government data center

Guam University to receive new government data center

September 01, 2023 Guam

A new government data center is proposed for the campus of the University of Guam. The government intends to construct a two-story, 15,000-square-foot data center/Office of Information Technology facility. The endeavor will see an investment of $15 million. The report notes that the 1992-built...

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Read Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand
Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand

Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand

August 31, 2023 New Zealand

In New Zealand, Aventuur, a leisure park developer, has shared plans to heat a surfing lagoon using a solar-powered data center. The company is already in the process of building a surf park in Perth, Australia, which, it has outlined, is set to open in 2025. In Auckland, meanwhile, it's planning...

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Read GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station
GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station

GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station

August 31, 2023 Guam

Guam-based telecommunications company GTA TeleGuam has been permitted to construct a new cable landing station (CLS). In May, GTA submitted plans to construct a new CLS in Inalhan, southeast of the island. The Guam Daily Post reported last week that the Guam Hybrid Land Use Commission granted...

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Read APL Investments plans 150MW Kyushu data center facility
APL Investments plans 150MW Kyushu data center facility

APL Investments plans 150MW Kyushu data center facility

August 29, 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC)

A new campus in the Japanese prefecture of Kyushu is being built by a US investment company that plans to expand into the data center industry. According to Nikkei Asia, the U.S.-based investment firm Asia Pacific Land (APL) intends to construct a $845 million facility in Kitakyushu. Per reports,...

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Read Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea
Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea

Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea

August 25, 2023 South Korea

The government of South Korea is planning a 1GW data center campus in the country's southwestern region. The New Industry and Distributed Energy Division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced this week that up to 25 40MW data centers will be constructed in the Salaseido neighborhood of...

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Read Opening of AI data center by Changan Automobile and Baidu
Opening of AI data center by Changan Automobile and Baidu

Opening of AI data center by Changan Automobile and Baidu

August 22, 2023 China

The Chinese government-owned automaker Changan Automobile and the technology company Baidu have opened a data center dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). Baidu's cloud service and the Baige heterogeneous AI computation platform power the facility. According to the corporations, the center...

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Read India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center
India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center

India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center

August 14, 2023 India / Bhārata

India's Greater Noida will soon house a data center dedicated to quantum computation. On August 11, the Utter Pradesh (UP) Government and Innogress, a project promoter, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Indraprastha Quantum Data Center (IQDC). As a joint venture between Innogress...

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Read Construction of the UNN data facility in Brunei commences
Construction of the UNN data facility in Brunei commences

Construction of the UNN data facility in Brunei commences

August 10, 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Unified National Networks (UNN) data center construction has commenced at the UNN Tungku Submarine Landing Station in Brunei. A ceremony to mark the start was conducted for the 51,000-square-foot facility containing 200 Vertiv-supplied racks. Utilizing a prefabricated design, construction should...

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Read ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development
ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

August 03, 2023 Hong Kong

ESR has secured a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) to develop a data center in Hong Kong, it has announced. It has closed the first SLL in Hong Kong, worth HK$1.6 billion (US$205m), which will be used to convert a building in Kwai Chung into the 21.3MW ESR Kwai Chung Data Centre HK1.The company...

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Read AMD will invest $400 million in a new India facility
AMD will invest $400 million in a new India facility

AMD will invest $400 million in a new India facility

August 01, 2023 India / Bhārata

Over the next five years, AMD plans to invest approximately $400 million in India. With this investment, a new AMD campus will be constructed in Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka. This will be the company's largest design center, and it is anticipated that approximately 3,000 new engineering...

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Read Mitsubishi teams up with FNT to boost data center sustainability
Mitsubishi teams up with FNT to boost data center sustainability

Mitsubishi teams up with FNT to boost data center sustainability

July 27, 2023 Japan

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and FNT Software have announced the signing of an MoU to construct sustainable data centres to support decarbonization efforts. Through the MoU, MHI’s analysis and energy management solutions will be integrated into FNT’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM)...

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Read GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative
GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

July 24, 2023 Singapore

The sovereign wealth fund GIC of Singapore is soliciting funds for a data center outside Seoul, South Korea. According to Business Korea, institutional investors, such as GIC, are working with indigenous institutional investors, securities companies, and asset management firms to build a data...

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Read India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar
India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar

India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar

July 17, 2023 India / Bhārata

PowerGrid, an Indian transmission corporation, plans to construct a data center on a substation site outside of Delhi. This week, PowerGrid's board authorized a revised investment proposal for the 'establishment of an experimental data center at PowerGrid Manesar Substation,' according to an...

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Read Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment
Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

July 14, 2023 Singapore

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to be...

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Read Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan
Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan

Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan

July 12, 2023 Singapore

In Bitdeer Technologies Group's latest operations update, it shared details about its upcoming expansion. Linghui Kong, Chief Executive Officer of Bitdeer, noted that its 100MW Gedu mining data center in Bhutan, for example, is almost complete and is expected to be delivered in July. Further to...

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Read AirTrunk officially starts the TOK1 facility expansion in Tokyo, Japan
AirTrunk officially starts the TOK1 facility expansion in Tokyo, Japan

AirTrunk officially starts the TOK1 facility expansion in Tokyo, Japan

July 03, 2023 AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1

AirTrunk has begun work on an expansion of its Tokyo, Japan, TOK1 campus. Senior AirTrunker personnel and construction partners attended a traditional "jichinsai" Shinto launching ceremony to spiritually sanctify the land in preparation for safe and efficient construction. No timelines for...

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Read Asia-Pacific Data Center Market to beDriven by Rapid AI Development
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Asia-Pacific Data Center Market to beDriven by Rapid AI Development

June 30, 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The widespread use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential growth for the data center industry, according to JLL's new Global Data Centre Outlook. Hyperscalers and edge data centers, which account for 79% of total demand, are the fastest-developing segments of...

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