Asia-Pacific (APAC) Data Center News

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

MC Digital Realty Announce Hyperscale Data Center in Inzai Near Tokyo

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today that MC Digital Realty, a 50/50 joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty, has reached an agreemen...

March 04, 2019

MC Digital Realty-Inazi (NRT10)

Equinix Plans to Open a Seoul Data Center in Q3 2019

Equinix has announced it will be building a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Seoul. It will be the company's first facility in South Korea, with SL1 expected to provide more than 18,000 square feet of co-location space, offering an initial capacity of 550 cabinets in th...

January 18, 2019

Equinix Seoul SL1

Colt Data Centre Services enters new market in Mumbai (PR)

Major investment in 100MW data centre will deliver hyper-scale [and cloud computing] data centre in India Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), a Fidelity owned company today announced their entry into a major new market in India. The organisation has successfully acquired land in Mumbai and plans ...

November 27, 2018

Colt Mumbai

Amazon plans to invest $951m in Indonesia over 10 years

American tech giant Amazon is planning a 14 trillion-rupiah (SS1.3 billion) foray into Indonesia, in another major investment in the South-east Asian digital economy. The plan was conveyed to Indonesian President Joko Widodo by Amazon Vice-President Werner Vogels during their meeting in Jakarta o...

September 25, 2018

Indonesia

Digital Realty opens new Sydney Data Center at Erskine Park

Digital Realty’s SYD11 data center at Erskine Park in Sydney is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2018. To look at how the new facility reflects both the evolution of Digital Realty’s global design standards and Australia’s capacity for early adoption of data center innovation, DCD spoke...

August 26, 2018

Digital Realty Erskine Park (Sydney)

Singapore Internet Exchange deploys to STT Tai Seng 1

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) today announced a partnership with Singapore Internet Exchange Ltd (SGIX) to augment Singapore’s Internet interconnectivity with the launch of a SGIX point of presence (PoP) in STT Tai Seng 1, a colocation facility hosting network service providers, digi...

July 17, 2018

STT Singapore 5

Apple will build 2nd Chinese Data Center

Apple is expanding in China again. The company first announce a facility in Guizhou Province. Now, Apple has announced a second data center in mainland China. Apple decided to build facilities to store data behind the Great Firewall of China after the Chinese government passed strict data res...

February 06, 2018

Apple Ulanqab City

NEXTDC launches Australia's first Uptime Institute Tier IV-Certified Constructed Facility (PR)

NEXTDC announced that its B2 Brisbane data centre is the first Australian data centre – and the first Asia Pacific colocation data centre – to receive Tier IV Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF) from Uptime Institute, the world’s leading independent data centre advisory and certifica...

October 05, 2017

NEXTDC Brisbane B2

Iron Mountain Buys Credit Suisse Data Centers in London and Singapore (PR)

Iron Mountain to acquire two Credit Suisse data centers in London and Singapore for approximately $100 million, which would add 273,000 square feet to its growing data center portfolio Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, t...

October 05, 2017

Iron Mountain Singapore SIN-1

PT DCI and Equinix Announce Opening of New Data Center in Indonesia (PR)

JAKARTA, Indonesia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PT Data Center Infrastructure Indonesia (PT DCI), in partnership with Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the opening of its data center facility located at Cibitung, West Java. Built and operat...

May 14, 2013

Equinix Jakarta JK1

Singtel and A-Reit to develop Kim Chuan data centre in Singapore (PR)

Singapore, 4 May 2009 -- Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) today announced it entered into an agreement with Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) under which A-Reit will develop to Singtel’s specification a state-of-the art green data centre. As part of this agreement, ...

September 04, 2009

Nxera: Kim Chuan 2

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