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Schneider Electric picks Nirupa Chander to lead data center power team

Schneider Electric has appointed energy industry veteran Nirupa Chander to head up its data centre power business across several markets across the Middle East and Asia. She has taken on the role of senior vice president, secure power and data centers, international operations, at the power te...

January 06, 2025

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

GDS rebrands international unit to DayOne

Chinese data center firm GDS has changed its name and officially launched as an independent company as of January 1, following the recent completion of a series B funding round. Established in 2022, what was then GDS International was founded to hold GDS Holding’s data center assets and operat...

January 06, 2025

China

Akamai to end CDN services in China

US-based cloud computing and Content Delivery Network (CDN) company Akamai plans to end its CDN in China, ending services in the country on June 30, 2026, the company said in a letter to customers. After this point, any remaining content requests will be automatically served from neighboring c...

January 04, 2025

China

Global Switch confirms search for co-investor

Global Switch recently announced that the sale of its Sydney data center business to HMC Capital had closed, and has officially confirmed previous reports it was seeking external investment for its London campus.“As part of its financing strategy to drive future growth, Global Switch has also ...

January 03, 2025

Sydney

BGRIM to power data centers in Thailand

Thai energy producer B.Grimm Power (BGRIM) plans to offer energy solutions to Thailand's growing data center sector and is currently in talks with several firms. BGRIM intends to spend between 5 billion baht ($145 million) and 7 billion baht ($203 million) to support its expansion into the dat...

December 31, 2024

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Australia's NRFC invests AU$22.5m into Vault Cloud

Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) has invested AU$22.5 million (US$14.04m) in Canberra-based Vault Cloud which will be used to deliver "additional security capabilities for its existing contracts" and to expand its offerings including artificial intelligence (AI), "De...

December 31, 2024

Australia

VueNow launches two Edge data centers in midst of investigation

VueNow Infotech has inaugurated two Edge data centers in Uttar Pradesh, India, while in the midst of a money laundering investigation. The data centers are located in Malihabad and Ambedkarnagar, and are part of a wider plan to deploy as many as 750 Edge data centers across the state.The compa...

December 23, 2024

India / Bhārata

Vertiv acquires tech and assets from BSE

Vertiv's Chinese subsidiary has acquired centrifugal chiller technology and assets from BiXin Energy Technology Co. (BSE), a manufacturer of chillers, heat pumps, heat-recovery solutions and air-handling units.“This acquisition supports our capital allocation strategy, which includes adding te...

December 21, 2024

China

Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation invests into Vault Cloud

Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) has invested AU$22.5 million (US$14.04m) in Canberra-based Vault Cloud. The investment will be used by Vault to deliver "additional security capabilities for its existing contracts" and to expand its offerings including artificial int...

December 21, 2024

Australia

INZET and Sustainability Economics sign MoU in Bali

The Amerta Bali Lestari Foundation's INZET unit has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sustainability Economics for clean energy-powered AI data centers in Bali. Sustainability Economics provides net zero solutions for customers in high-emitting sectors, and is currently exploring...

December 20, 2024

Bali

Doma plans 1.5GW of data centers in Thailand

Doma Infrastructure Group (DIG), which describes itself as a developer of master-planned data center parks, partnered with Silicon Tech Park (STP), a Thai technology park operator to jointly develop three AI-ready green data center parks in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).Clement Goh, DIG ...

December 13, 2024

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Civo launches sovereign cloud region in India

UK-based cloud provider Civo has launched a sovereign cloud region in Mumbai, India as a part of a $25.52 million investment in the country. This investment will see India join Civo's existing regions across Europe, North America, and Asia. Civo said it aims to provide an equitable model of c...

December 13, 2024

India / Bhārata

Telstra fined $1.9m following emergency call failure

Australian mobile network operator Telstra has been fined more than AU$3 million ($1.9m) following its 90-minute Triple Zero outage earlier this year. Thenetwork operator has paid the fine as confirmed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which said the fine was handed ...

December 13, 2024

Australia

Indosat to expand 4G and 5G network in Indonesia

Telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has signed a 4G and 5G deal with network vendor Nokia. Nokia will provide its AirScale equipment portfolio including multiband radio technology and high-capacity baseband solutions, plus its FastMile Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) solutions in strategic regio...

December 09, 2024

Indonesia

Telstra acquires MVNO Boost Mobile

Australian carrier Telstra has acquired MVNO Boost Mobile for a reported AU$145 million (US$94.1m) as confirmed by Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton via a post on LinkedIn on December 2. Adderton said the deal will enable him to focus on his latest venture, MobileX, a carrier that leverages ...

December 05, 2024

Australia

IHS Towers to sell stake in Kuwait tower unit

IHS Towers has announced a deal to sell its 70 percent stake in IHS Kuwait Limited to Zain Group, with the telco taking back ownership of towers it previously sold. According to IHS, the terms of the transaction reflect an enterprise value of $230 million for the IHS Kuwait portfolio and inclu...

December 05, 2024

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Vnet to set up data center investment fund with Dajia

Chinese data center operator Vnet is setting up a data center investment fund with Chinese insurance company Dajia. The fund will be jointly operated by Vnet and Dajia subsidiary Dajia Investment Holding Company and will make its first investment in Vnet’s Taicang IDC campus in the Jiangsu pro...

December 03, 2024

China

HMC Capital launches DigiCo REIT

Australia’s HMC Capital has launched its new digital infrastructure investment vehicle, having raised AU$153 million ($100m) more than anticipated in its initial public offering (IPO), and says it is in talks to buy three additional hyperscale data centers in the US.David Di Pilla, HMC Capital...

November 26, 2024

Australia

CPP partners with Pacific AMC for South Korea data center

Pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) this week announced a KRW 1 trillion (US$711 million) joint venture with Pacific Asset Management Company (Pacific AMC) to develop carrier-neutral hyperscale data centers in South Korea.“The demand for data centers in Asia Pac...

November 23, 2024

South Korea

Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers

Japan's Rakuten Group is set to deploy Ampere hardware across its data centers. The company is expanding its partnership with Ampere Computing to reduce the power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) computing.Hironori Yoshida, executive officer and vice director of the cloud platform s...

November 23, 2024

Japan

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