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Large scale data center planned in New Zealand

A large-scale data center powered by hydrogen is reportedly being planned in New Zealand by Mobii Green and North Rakaia. Mobii Green Energy founder Kenny Tseng said the first phase of the project will see sovereign funds and international private equity funds invest US$2 billion to develop 8...

October 09, 2024

New Zealand

Goodman completes Hong Kong data center

Real estate firm Goodman this week said it has completed the third building at its Goodman Tsuen Wan West data center campus and handed over the 50MW facility to Chinese operator GDS.Goodman’s head of Asia, Paul McGarry, said: “This is the latest data center completion at the brand new 225MW G...

October 04, 2024

Hong Kong

GoTo Group signs new cloud deals with Tencent and Alibaba Cloud

Indonesian technology company GoTo Group, a provider of ride-hailing and delivery services, has signed five-year deals with Tencent and Alibaba to use their cloud infrastructure services. GoTo will use Tencent's Platform as a Service (PaaS) technology to support its end-to-end ecosystem, whil...

September 27, 2024

Indonesia

Mari Petroleum to develop data centers accross Pakistan

Pakistani oil company Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) has revealed plans to develop data centers across the country as part of an expansion into digital infrastructure. This week the company said it has formed the new digital infrastructure subsidiary with an equity investment of Rs. 10 ...

September 26, 2024

Pakistan

HBF completes mainframe to cloud migration

Australian insurance provider HBF has completed its "digital transformation" project which began in 2019. This project involved migrating its workloads and core systems from a mainframe to the cloud. The company has reportedly also established a new core insurance platform for policy, product...

September 19, 2024

Australia

Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud

Ricoh, a Japanese company specializing in imaging and electronics, has moved its on-premise workloads to the cloud as a part of the company's GLIDER data infrastructure project which aims to consolidate data from sales, inventory, and operations from more than 50 separate companies that make u...

September 18, 2024

Japan

Data center fire in Singapore impacts Alibaba Cloud services

A data center fire incident in Singapore has caused issues to Alibaba's cloud services. The company said it occurred in Availability Zone C of its Singapore region."At 10:20 on September 10, 2024 Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected network access anomalies in availability zone C of...

September 12, 2024

Singapore

Adisyn exits Perth data center

Australian MSP Adisyn previously known as DC Two, announced it has negotiated a surrender of its Bibra Lake data center lease. The company will exit the lease on 18 October - decommissioning and selling plant and equipment at the site - and said the move would result in approximately AU$350,00...

September 10, 2024

Australia

ACCC approves Optus-TPG network sharing agreement

Australian regulator ACCC has approved the proposed regional network-sharing agreement struck by Optus and TPG Telecom, enabling the telcos to create a regional Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN), which will last for 11 years. ACCC said it would not oppose the plans in a statement yesterday. ...

September 07, 2024

Australia

Blackstone acquires AirTrunk for AU$24bn

Blackstone has acquired APAC data center firm AirTrunk from Macquarie Asset Management and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. for US$16.1 billion, making it the largest-ever deal in the space. This deal was secured with funds from Blackstone along with the Canada Pension Plan Investm...

September 06, 2024

Australia

Empyrion Digital to expand into Japan

APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital this week announced it has signed a binding agreement with “one of Japan’s largest diversified financial services groups” to develop a 25MW AI-ready data center in Tokyo. Mark Fong, CEO of Empyrion Digital described the news as a "significant milestone...

September 05, 2024

Japan

RBA selects NTT for new IT infrastructure

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has selected NTT Australia for the 'design and implementation' of its new IT infrastructure. This contract worth AU$12.7 million is part of RBA's CoreMod program, an effort that was revealed at the end of 2023. While this "design and implementation phase" ...

September 04, 2024

Australia

IndiGo airline completes cloud migration process

Indian airline IndiGo has completed its cloud migration program, shifting all of its workloads to the cloud in less than 18 months. It is using advanced cloud technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to support its services. Neetan Chopra, IndiGo's ...

September 03, 2024

India / Bhārata

Thai telco True to take legal actions against mobile tower thieves

Thai telco True Corporation has confirmed it's taking legal action against thieves stealing mobile tower equipment from its sites. The company has appointed a legal firm to collaborate with the police on all cases, including thefts of lithium batteries, cables, and base station equipment acro...

September 03, 2024

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Zettabyte proposes new AI data center in Taiwan

Zettabyte, which describes itself as “Asia's leading AI data center software and systems technology provider" has announced a strategic partnership with Wistron Corporation, a technology service provider, to build Taiwan's first hyperscale AI data center. Kenneth Chung-Hou Tai, chairman of Ze...

September 01, 2024

Taiwan

ESR completes construction work of its data center in Osaka, Japan

ESR, an APAC real estate firm this week announced that it has successfully completed the core and shell of its Cosmosquare OS1 data center project in Nanko Kita. The facility will be ready for service in May 2025 and once fitted out, it will provide 25MW of capacity. At full build-out, the $2...

August 31, 2024

Japan

Singtel and Hitachi partner on new AI data centers in Japan

Singaporean telco Singtel and Japanese giant Hitachi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on “next-generation data centers and GPU cloud” in Japan and potentially the wider Asia Pacific region under the lead of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit. Bill Chang, CEO of Sing...

August 28, 2024

Japan

Toyo Tire selects HPE for HPC via GreenLake cloud offering

Japanese tire company Toyo Tire Corporation has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver a high-performance computing (HPC) system via its GreenLake cloud offering. It will be providing its seventh-generation HPC system, which is three times more powerful than its predecessor, as ...

August 27, 2024

Japan

Lintasarta unveils AI cloud 'GPU Merdeka' in Indonesia

Indonesian IT service management company Lintasarta has launched an AI cloud service called GPU Merdeka, a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) would be a sovereign AI cloud featuring Nvidia chips. The GPU Merdeka service features GPU servers with a configuration of 8x Nvidia H100 SXM Tensor Core GPUs,...

August 25, 2024

Indonesia

Singtel and Bridge Alliance to launch GPU-as-a-Service in South Asia

Singapore's Singtel and the Bridge Alliance are set to launch a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering in Southeast Asia. In February 2024 when the company first announched the launch, it mentioned that Singtel’s GPUaaS will be powered by Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU-powered clusters that are opera...

August 20, 2024

South Asia

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