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Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus

Chayora, a Hong Kong-based data center operator, has announced that it has completed the construction of its first data center on its new Shanghai campus in China. The company first announced the campus back in November 2021, and in partnership with EdgeConneX, Edge will offer computing servic...

October 03, 2022

Shanghai

China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers

Back in May 2021, Greenpeace said that China's data center emissions were to double, with its energy usage expected to nearly quadruple by 2035 (increasing by an estimated 289%). "Explosive growth" in digital infrastructure was identified as a major contributing factor to this. Considering the...

September 26, 2022

China

Bosung Group to expand in South Korea

Bosung Group is expanding its data center footprint in SolaSeaDo, South Korea, with the addition of a new 200MW data center campus in SolaSeaDo, to the south of the country in Jeonnam Province. These expansion plans come following the company partnering up with The Green Korea (TGK), a joint v...

September 23, 2022

South Korea

NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building," ...

September 23, 2022

Japan

Tighter guidelines on data centre sustainability needed, new report says

There have been a number of recent reports that have highlighted that data center operators are falling short when it comes to sustainability tracking. Morningstar Sustainanalytics, Uptime Institute's 12th annual Global data center survey, and now Cushman & Wakefield's report 'Energy, Wate...

September 22, 2022

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

DITO Opens New Data Center in Batangas, The Philippines

Philippines telecommunication company DITO Telecommunity has opened a data center in Batangas City. DITO did not reveal the specifications for the data center, but it had a launch ceremony for the facility. From indications, the data center was developed in conjunction with Udenna- its pare...

September 14, 2022

Philippines

Data centers to receive VAT exemption in Thailand to energize investment

In a move intended to encourage greater investment in data centers in Thailand, the Thai cabinet has approved the draft Royal Decree regarding data centers receiving a tax (VAT) exemption. At present, Thai VAT is levied at the rate of 7%.The decision, made to facilitate the country becoming a ...

September 13, 2022

Thailand / Prathet Thai

The YTL Green Data Centre Park and what it means for Johor

YTL Data Centre Holdings Pte Ltd and Sea Ltd recently held the ground-breaking ceremony for The Sea Data Centre, signifying the first phase of the 500MW YTL Green Data Center Park in Johor, Malaysia. The project represents an RM1.5 billion investment into the area over the next ten years, with...

September 09, 2022

YTL Johor

Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia

Equinix has announced that it has completed the expansion of its second Melbourne data center in Australia. The expansion cost the company $23 million (US$ 15.7m). Equinix first opened the ME2 data center in February 2020. The company acquired 500 new cabinets to increase the data center’s tot...

September 02, 2022

Equinix Melbourne ME2

India's data center boom: Growth and projections

India is currently experiencing a data center boom, an expansion that is only expected to grow. According to research, while the industry was previously fragmented, it is now evolving rapidly as the industry becomes more consolidated. Presently, there are 138 data centers spanning India, with ...

August 29, 2022

India / Bhārata

Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand

Canberra Data Centres has announced the opening of two new facilities in Auckland, New Zealand. The Australian data center company launched the data centers in Auckland's Hobsonville and Silverdale areas. The Silverdale campus is called Auckland Campus One, while the Hobsonville data center is...

August 25, 2022

CDC: Hobsonville 1

Saratoga Investama Invests in Indonesia's AtriaDC

Indonesian investment company Saratoga Investama has announced that it has pumped funds into AtriaDC, a local data center firm. The funds will help AtriaDC expand its data center to 30MW. AtriaDC operates a purpose-built data center it recently acquired in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to r...

August 18, 2022

Indonesia

Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Developing New Facility in Taoyuan, Taiwan

Taiwanese telecommunication company Chunghwa will be developing a new data center in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The company revealed that the board approved the development of the Lunping Internet Data Center. The new data center will feature five floors above ground and a basement. Its floor area will ...

August 17, 2022

Taiwan

Keppel & Salim Group to launch 50MW data center in Bogor, Indonesia

Keppel & Salim Group have announced the launch of a new data center, a two-story facility, named IKDC1 in Bogor City, Indonesia. According to reports, the facility will be developed over three phases in a seven-hectare data center campus, with a capacity of 50MW. The company has outlined t...

August 08, 2022

IndoKeppel Data Centre 1 (IKDC 1)

NextDC Finally Launches S3 Facility in Sydney

NextDC has announced the launch of its S3 Sydney facility in Sydney, Australia. The Australian data center company announced on LinkedIn that S3 is now open and ready for customer tours. NextDC first started work on the S3 facility in March 2021. The company also revealed that it would have...

August 02, 2022

NextDC Sydney S3

JLL's new report on sustainability reveals there's room for improvement in the APAC region

According to a recent report by real estate consultant JLL, which surveyed 505 data centers across 13 countries in the Asia Pacific region, data center operators are still failing to take charge of their sustainability pledges. While 85% of data center managers believe that sustainability will...

July 25, 2022

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Singapore authorities to begin taking applications for new data centers

Singapore has announced the end of its data center moratorium and is now accepting new applications for facilities, following Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Economic Development Board's (EDB) pilot scheme launch. The moratorium was originally put in place back in 2019 due to S...

July 22, 2022

Singapore

Are ammonia-powered data centers the future?

As the race for more sustainable power options continues in the data center industry, a raft of alternatives have been proposed, from solar to green hydrogen. However, perhaps one option that few expected is ammonia, which is now being pegged as the next major renewable fuel. Joel Moser, CEO o...

July 15, 2022

Japan

Zscaler announces launch of co-located data centers in Canberra and Auckland

Zscaler has announced that it has launched a new co-located data center in Canberra and a second co-located data center in Auckland, in a bid to offer both public and private sector enterprises in Australia and New Zealand "greater resilience" in support of their "zero trust cybersecurity post...

July 11, 2022

Auckland

$Black Mountain Energy & Highwire's fracked gas mining proposal called a "parasitic project"$

Black Mountain Energy & Highwire's fracked gas mining proposal called a "parasitic project"

American fracking company Black Mountain's announcement that it will partner with crypto mining firm Highwire to use fracked gas from its planned Valhalla exploration project in Kimberley to power cryptocurrency mining has been met with significant opposition. According to Black Mountain, it h...

July 08, 2022

Australia

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