Asia-Pacific (APAC) Data Center News

Smartfren makes significant expansion in Indonesia

Smartfren has announced that it is teaming up with UAE technology firm G42 to build a 1,000MW data center in Indonesia. Smartfren signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with G42 to develop the project, and this signing was attended by President of Indonesia Joko Widodo and the Crown Pri...

November 08, 2021

Indonesia

Leading Edge DC opens new data center in Tamworth, Australia

Leading Edge DC, an Australian Edge data center firm, has announced the opening of a new facility in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. The company revealed the development in a LinkedIn post. It said: "We're Open for Business in Tamworth! A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of t...

November 05, 2021

Australia

MC Digital Realty open data centers in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan

The joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty called MC Digital Realty has opened data centers in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. The Tokyo facility is called NRT10, and it offers 38MW of capacity across 407,400 square feet (37,850 square meters). NRT10 is the company’s third ...

November 04, 2021

MC Digital Osaka Connected Campus (KIX)

Alibaba Cloud to open data center in Thailand next year

Alibaba is planning to develop its first hyperscale data center in Thailand. The Thailand data center is scheduled to launch in 2022, and it will carry some of Alibaba’s services and solutions. Some of these include those that support Alibaba’s operation around fintech, logistics, retail, d...

November 04, 2021

Thailand / Prathet Thai

DCI Indonesia opens first phase of 600MW data center in Kawarang

DCI has announced the opening of the first phase of its second data center campus in Karawang, Indonesia. Karawang is situated to the east of Jakarta. The facility called H2 sits on 791 hectares of land, and it has a potential capacity of 600MW. The completion of the first phase sees DCI add a...

November 03, 2021

DCI Indonesia: H2-01

OneAsia is expanding into South Korea

OneAsia, a Hong Kong-based data center firm, is expanding out of Greater China. The firm is planning to build a data center in Busan, South Korea. OneAsia says the data center will be developed in the Mieum Industrial Park in Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone. The data center campus will cover u...

November 02, 2021

South Korea

Indonet’s Edge DC opens first data center in Jakarta, Indonesia

Indonet’s subsidiary PT Ekagrata Data Gemilang (Edge DC) has opened its new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The new facility called EDGE1 is a five-story building with 6MW of capacity. It is also capable of accommodating 1,300 racks. PT Ekagrata says it has leased over half of the facility....

October 31, 2021

Digital Edge: EDGE1

Teleindia Networks' subsidiary opens new data center in Bangalore, India

The subsidiary of Teleindia Networks' subsidiary Data Samudra has announced the launch of its first data center. The facility has 100,000 square feet of space and it is located in Bangalore’s KIADB IT Park. In addition, the facility will offer up to 25,000 square feet of colocation space and 3...

October 31, 2021

Teleindia Datasamudra

Equinix Expands in Osaka, Japan with OS3 data center

Equinix has expanded in Japan by opening a new data center in Osaka called OS3. In Phase 1, the IBX facility will provide more than 33,000 square feet (3,070 square meters) of colocation space and 900 racks. OS3 will offer over 89,300 square feet (8,300 square meters) of colocation space and 2...

October 29, 2021

Equinix Osaka OS3

Mapletree Industrial Trust divests SG3 to Equinix for $92m

Mapletree Industrial Trust has sold an Equinix-occupied data center at 26A Ayer Rajah Crescent in Singapore to Equinix. The sale price of the facility is S$125 million (US$92.7m). The SG3 facility has 384,802 square feet of space. It is also a built-to-suit seven-story data center facility ...

October 29, 2021

Equinix Singapore SG3

Tesla Finally opens a data center in China

Tesla has finally opened its data center in Shanghai, China. It first announced the facility in April after Chinese regulators started making rules that would require Chinese subsidiaries to store data in China. Tesla did not reveal many details about the data center as the electric vehicle ma...

October 26, 2021

China

Alibaba expands in Asia

Alibaba has announced that as part of its global expansion plans, it is launching its first data centers in South Korea and Thailand next year in an effort to compete with the likes of US giants like Amazon and Microsoft.Commenting on the expansion, Selina Yuan, General Manager of Internationa...

October 21, 2021

Thailand / Prathet Thai

The Taliban takeover: What are telecoms looking like?

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has been devastating for millions. There has been radical transformation and destabilisation ever since. As part of the coup, Taliban forces targeted cell towers and critical infrastructure. According to figures from the ATRA in June, a total of 301 telecoms...

October 21, 2021

South Asia

Digital Edge reveals RFS date for OSA1 in Osaka, Japan

Digital Edge has announced its ready-for-service (RFS) date for launching its first self-build data center facility in Osaka, Japan. OSA1 is a 14MW facility located in the Osaka Central Business District. Digital Edge started the facility’s construction in April 2021 and is scheduled to be in ...

October 19, 2021

Digital Edge: Osaka OSA1

Data Center First moves into Batam, Indonesia with new data center

Data Center First has announced that it is moving into Batam, Indonesia, with its first data center in the country. According to the company, the first phase will see the construction of a 30MW facility at Batam Island's Nongsa Digital Park, spanning 276,600 sq ft (25,700 sqm), and there is a ...

October 18, 2021

Batam

New Taiwan data center hailed as a sign of greater things to come

Chief Telecom, an affiliate of Chunghwa Telecom, has launched its fourth Internet Data Center (IDC) in Taipei City, a move that has been projected to bring new opportunities for Taiwan's IDC and cloud industries.The unveiling ceremony was attended by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who outlined...

October 15, 2021

Taiwan

MNC to partner with Infokom for data center development in Lido resort city Indonesia

MNC Land and Infokom have signed a deal to develop a data center in a new resort city south of Jakarta, Indonesia. MNC Land is a subsidiary of MNC Group, an Indonesian conglomerate. West Java, Lido City, is located to the south of Bogor City, and it is an MNC project to create a large resort a...

October 13, 2021

Indonesia

Edge Centres expanding in Victoria, Australia

Edge Centres has announced that it has broken ground on a new edge facility center in Traralgon, Victoria. The new facility named EC8 will be Edge Centres’ second facility in Victoria after it opened EC3 in Bendigo, Victoria. Edge Centres plans to have four new facilities in operation by Novem...

October 13, 2021

EC3 Bendigo

Swoop acquires Countrytell in New South Wales, Australia

Australian telecommunication firm Swoop Holdings has acquired 100 percent of Countrytell Holdings for AU$4.2 million (US$3). Swoop paid half in cash and the other half in Swoop shares. Countrytell is a regional connectivity provider in Newcastle, New South Wales. Countrytell was founded in 200...

October 07, 2021

Australia

IIJ: Micro data center moves in at Shiroi Data Center Campus

IIJ has announced that it has deployed a micro data center on the premises of Shiroi Data Center Campus (Shiroi DCC), the first of its kind in Japan. A 12U, the micro data center has an available range of 12U to 38U. The MDC also has a cooling unit, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), envir...

October 05, 2021

Japan

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