May 20, 2025 Singapore
Global private markets firm Partners Group is set to acquire Singapore-based Digital Halo- a data center operator with facilities located across Southeast and North Asia. The company is currently owned by Arch Capital, which will remain a minority shareholder in the business.Following the terms...
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January 22, 2025 Japan
Data center provider CloudHQ has formed a joint venture with real asset manager ESR Group for the Cosmosqure data center project in Osaka, Japan. Located in Nanko Kita, 10km (6.2 miles) from Osaka’s central business district, the campus will see an investment of $2 billion to deliver a planned...
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January 18, 2025 Australia
The Australian government has pledged this week to provide an additional AU $3 billion (US$1.86bn) to support NBN Co's fiber network upgrades. NBN Co noted that the investment is in addition to more than AU$800 million (US$494m) of its own investment.NBN, which is a state-owned corporation of the...
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January 17, 2025 Australia
Australian carrier Telstra has this week detailed plans to form a joint venture (JV) with Accenture to speed up the company's data and AI roadmap. Telstra noted that the JV will enable its teams to operate more efficiently and effectively. The JV, which is set to be 60 percent owned by Accenture...
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January 15, 2025 Japan
Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced plans to develop a facility in the greater Osaka-Kyoto area alongside Kagoya Asset Management. The EdgeConneX greater Osaka-Kyoto data center development is targeted to be ready-for-service in 2027 with a total capacity of more than 140MW when fully...
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January 14, 2025 Indonesia
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has paired with Chinese vendor ZTE to bolster 4G coverage across remote areas of rural Indonesia. In an announcement last week, the carrier said that it has worked with ZTE to deploy more than 550 ultra-capacity backbone microwave links across Indonesia, which it...
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January 08, 2025 Indonesia
PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin) and PT Citranet Sarana Digital (Citra Connect) have broken ground on a cable landing station (CLS) in Nongsa, Indonesia which will form a key part of the Indonesia Cable Express (ICE) system.The ICE system comprises seven subsea cables and is part...
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January 06, 2025 Asia-Pacific (APAC)
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...
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January 06, 2025 China
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...
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January 04, 2025 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...
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January 03, 2025 Sydney
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...
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December 31, 2024 Thailand / Prathet Thai
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 data...
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December 31, 2024 Australia
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),...
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December 23, 2024 India / Bhārata
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 company...
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December 21, 2024 China
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...
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December 21, 2024 Australia
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...
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December 20, 2024 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...
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December 13, 2024 Thailand / Prathet Thai
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...
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December 13, 2024 India / Bhārata
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 cloud...
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December 13, 2024 Australia
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 to...
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