December 10, 2021 Digital Edge Narra1 (MNL1)
Digital Edge is forming a joint venture with the Philippines real estate company Threadborne Group to develop a 10MW data center in Manila, the Philippines. Both companies will be investing $100 million in the under-construction Digital Edge facility scheduled to be in operation in 2022. The...
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December 10, 2021 Melbourne
Australian real estate development company Hickory has begun construction on its first data center in Melbourne. The company first revealed plans for the data center in June. The facility will be located on a 3.5-hectare site in Truganina, West Melbourne. The data center was to have 269,000...
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December 09, 2021 Beijing
In light of the global push to reduce carbon emissions, Beijing outlined in a plan published on Wednesday that local governments in China should ensure that the "blind and disorderly development" of data centers is carefully monitored and prevented. Moreover, it stated that governments should...
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December 03, 2021 CtrlS Nodia
Ctrl's Noida data center is reportedly the most sustainable data center (DC) in northern India, with LEED v4.1 O+M Platinum certification and 100 % air pollution-free. On top of this, the facility is also designed to withstand earthquakes of 8.5 on the Richter scale. Sustainability was a key...
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December 02, 2021 AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1
AirTrunk has announced the launch of its first data center in Japan. The new facility is located in Tokyo, and it is called TOK1. It will have an initial capacity of up to 60MW. The 13.25-hectare site is located in Inzai Chiba Prefecture in Tokyo. The data center campus is also scalable to 300MW...
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December 01, 2021 Tamil Nadu
The government of Tamil Nadu, India has revealed a new data center policy. According to the new policy, the Tamil Nadu government will provide connectivity incentives, land, and power to support the development of new data centers. However, for data center firms to receive these incentives, they...
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December 01, 2021 Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu Government has revealed that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with some data center firms to develop data centers in the Indian state. The MoU is worth up to Rs 35,208 crore ($4.7bn). Some of the companies in question include STT GDC, Adani Enterprises, L&T, Nxtra, and...
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November 26, 2021 Vietnam
Singaporean infrastructure investment firm Infracrowd Capital has plans to develop a data center in Vietnam. Infracrowd signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nang IT Park Development Joint Stock Company for the data center development. The company will be developing a Tier III data...
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November 25, 2021 Hong Kong
ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which...
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November 24, 2021 Tamil Nadu
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has announced that it is planning to build data centers in Kanchipuram following the signing of a pact with the Tamil Nadu government. Over the next five years, the company expects to establish 90 MW capacity data centers in "a phased manner." According to the...
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November 23, 2021 New Zealand
The development of a data center at the US Antarctic base has been stalled with completion now scheduled to be in 2023. The data center is situated in the McMurdo Station research and logistics base in Ross Island, New Zealand. It is about 1,360 kilometers (850 miles) north of the South Pole....
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November 18, 2021 Digital Realty Kwai Chung HKG11
Digital Realty has announced the opening of a new data center in Hong Kong. The company first announced that it was constructing the facility in July 2020. The HKG11 facility is a 210,000 square feet (21,000 square meters) building with 24MW of capacity. In addition, the building has twelve...
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November 18, 2021 Shanghai
Chinese developer Chayora has revealed plans to build a data center campus in Shanghai, China. The data center campus will sit on an 8.5-acre site. In addition, the campus will have three five-story buildings with a capacity of up to 10,000 racks. Chayora also revealed that the campus would have...
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November 11, 2021 True IDC: Midtown Ratchada
True IDC has announced that it is expanding its True IDC-East Bangna facility in Bangkok. The data center firm had a ceremony last week to break ground on the second building on the site. True IDC planned four buildings with a total capacity of 15MW upon full buildout on the site. The facility...
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November 10, 2021 Philippines
DITO has revealed its plans to develop hyperscale data centers in the Philippines. DITO CME Holdings Corp, the parent company of DITO Telecommunity, is in talks with some hyperscale firms about developing a data center in the Philippines. President and Director of DITO CME, Ernesto Alberto, told...
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November 08, 2021 OrionStellar Colombo
Orion Stellar has opened a new carrier-neutral colocation data center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, called OrionStellar Data Center. The facility is built to Tier-III standards. It also has 1.5MW of capacity with space for up to 200 racks and a PUE of 1.4. Orion Stellar was founded this year, and it is...
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November 08, 2021 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 Prince of...
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November 05, 2021 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 this...
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November 04, 2021 MC Digital Osaka Connected Campus (KIX)
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...
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November 04, 2021 Thailand / Prathet Thai
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, digital...
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