Asia-Pacific (APAC) Data Center News

Digital Realty Breaks Ground on 1st Facility in South Korea

Digital Realty has begun construction on its first facility in Seoul, South Korea. Digital Seoul 1, also know as ICN10, will be built on a 22,000 square foot land parcel within the Sangam Digital Media City in northwest area of the city.The new facility will have 12 megawatts of critical (IT) ...

June 17, 2020

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

Digital Realty launches SIN12, a new 50 MW data centre in Singapore

Digital Realty has launched a new 50 MW data centre in Singapore. The new facility, Digital Loyang II (SIN12), is partially pre-leased to a major Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation, a global digital banking, fintech and sustainability company, and a leading gl...

April 10, 2020

Digital Realty Singapore Loyang 2

Big Data Exchange (BDx) Acquires Telstra Data Center in Singapore

Big Data Exchange just got bigger. The carrier neutral, content-exchange company announced the completion of sale on a data center located in Paya Lebar, Singapore formerly owned by Telstra."Expanding into Singapore was our first choice outside of the greater China area and a strategic one on ...

April 09, 2020

BDx Singapore SIN1

BBIX adds a new IX POP at NTT in Osaka

BBIX, a carrier neutral internet exchange based in Toyko, has launched a third POP in Osaka at NTT's Dojima Data Center.BBIX Press Release link

April 02, 2020

NTT Data Osaka Dojima (Building #4)

Equinix opens its 4th facility in Singapore

Equinix invested an initial $74M into SG4, the company’s fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Singapore. The first phase of the SG4 IBX has more than 45,400 SF of colocation space, with plans for 132,180 SF of colocation space at full build-out. Equinix Press Release: ...

March 24, 2020

Equinix Singapore SG4

Big Data Exchange (BDx) Announces Construction of Nanjing Data Center (PR)

HONG KONG -- BDx announced the construction of its newest data center in Nanjing, China this week, set to launch June 2020. Including facilities currently being acquired, BDx will have eight data centers in cities across two continents, including Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore and Lo...

February 10, 2020

BDx Nanjing

NTT Com’s Osaka 7 to Launch as One of the Largest Data Centers in Japan’s Kansai Region

NTT Com’s Osaka 7 to Launch as One of the Largest Data Centers in Japan’s Kansai RegionTOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO:9432), announced today that it will launch the Osaka...

November 26, 2019

NTT Osaka 7

AirTrunk announces a Second Sydney Data Centre

AirTrunk has announced its plans to build a second hyperscale data center in Sydney, with the new installation of more than 110 megawatts to complement its two existing ones. The new data center, which will open in 2020, will be located in northern Sydney and will be known as SYD2. The facilit...

November 21, 2019

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

MC Digital Realty acquires more land in Tokyo to build a 120 MW Campus

MC Digital Realty, a joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty Trust, has signed an agreement to acquire an additional plot of land in Tokyo. MC Digital Realty expects to close on the acquisition in the first quarter of 2020. The location is near to the five-acre parcel M...

September 30, 2019

MC Digital: Tokyo Connected Campus @ Inzai

Iron Mountain formerly launches Singapore facility

Iron Mountain held a launch event this week for SIN-1 in Singapore, the facility it acquired from Credit Suisse in 2017. The data center is the company's first facility in Asia.Iron Mountain Press Release

September 25, 2019

Iron Mountain Singapore SIN-1

AirTrunk Announces expansion to Hong Kong with new 20 MW Data Centre (PR)

AirTrunk, a specialist in hyperscale data centres, today confirmed its latest Asia-Pacific data centre development, announcing a new 20+ megawatt (MW) facility in Hong Kong that is set to open in Q4, 2020. The data centre will be located near Tsuen Wan, close to key data centres and Hong Kong’...

September 17, 2019

AirTrunk Hong Kong HKG1

Keppel DC REIT acquires two data centers and raises equiity (PR)

Keppel DC REIT announces two data centre acquisitions in Singapore and launches equity fund raising DPU-accretive acquisitions will strengthen Keppel DC REIT's portfolio and increase assets under management significantly by 30.7% to $2.58 billion Proposed acquisitions will be funded by a comb...

September 16, 2019

1-Net North Data Centre

Equinix Opens New Data Center in Seoul

Equinix opened a new data center in Seoul on August 30th 2019. The data center, SL1, is Equinix's first facility in Korea. South Korea has a high tech economy but has been neglected by the large international data center providers such as Digital Realty, Equinix, Cyxtera, and STT. Equinix's e...

August 30, 2019

Equinix Seoul SL1

Digital Realty To Enter South Korea (PR)

SAN FRANCISCO /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire land in Seoul, South Korea for the development of a new, carrier-neutral data cent...

July 30, 2019

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

NTT Starts Construction on one of the Largest Data Centers in Indonesia (PR)

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO: 9432), announced today it would develop a new data center campus at Bekasi, Indonesia. The new campus will be known as “Indonesia Jakarta 3...

June 27, 2019

NTT Jakarta 3 (JK3)

Amazon deploys Direct Connect Service at Equinix's HK1 Facility

Amazon has deployed its Direct Connect service to Equinix's HK1 facility. HK1 is the second best connected building in Hong Kong, after iAdvantage's MEGA-i building. Resources: Amazon's Announcement Equinix Press Release (below) HONG KONG – May 6, 2019 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the g...

May 06, 2019

Equinix Hong Kong HK1

AirTrunk Closes $332 million in funding to build Singapore data centre

AirTrunk has announces that it has received US$332 million (S$450 million) debt financing from three global financial institutions; Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Natixis. Additional equity capital was also raised from its founder and CEO, Robin Khuda, and shareholders, Goldman Sachs and TP...

April 10, 2019

AirTrunk Singapore SGP1

NEXTDC appointed Enterprise data centre provider for Queensland Government

NextDC will provide the Queensland government with data center-as-a-Service (DCaaS) solutions from its Brisbane facilities. The Australian colo company is the second provider to join the Queensland government’s ICT supplier panel in addition to Pulse Data Centre. NEXTDC's Announcement:We have ...

March 26, 2019

NEXTDC Brisbane B1

Equinix is Building ME2 in Melbourne

ARNnet.com.au reports that Interconnection and data centre provider Equinix is investing $117 million (US$84 million) in a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Melbourne. The site, named ME2, is expected to open by September this year and will be the company’s fourth in the...

March 12, 2019

Equinix Melbourne ME2

Global Switch Launches Woodlands Site in Singapore

Global Switch formerly launched their Woodlands site. A couple quick facts: The site was built in partnership with China Telecom Global and Daily-Tech. The facility cost $280 million ($205 million USD) The facility has seven floors. (only 5 data center floors) 25,000 square meters (270,000 sq...

March 07, 2019

Global Switch Singapore Woodlands

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