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AMD president Victor Peng announces retirement

AMD president Victor Peng has announced plans to retire on August 30. Till his retirement date, Peng will continue to serve on the AMD executive team and take on an advisory role to support the leadership transition.AMD chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su said: “Victor re-joined AMD in 2022 following t...

July 24, 2024

Taiwan

Datagrid buys another six hectares for data center expansion in New Zealand

New Zealand data center firm Datagrid has purchased another six hectares of land for expansion on its campus on New Zealand’s South Island. The New Zealand Overseas Investment Office has approved the land acquisition and will allow the project to reach a total area of 49 hectares.Perrine Dhall...

July 23, 2024

New Zealand

Vnet founder withdraws acquisition offer

Josh Sheng Chen, co-chairperson and CEO of Chinese data center firm Vnet (formerly 21Vianet) has withdrawn his offer to acquire all outstanding shares of the company which he made in September 2022. Josh Sheng Chen said: “I withdrew my privatization proposal as I believe that maintaining Vne...

July 20, 2024

China

Telin and BW Digital team up on Batam-Singapore subsea cable

Telin and BW Digital have formed a strategic partnership to develop and construct the Nongsa-Changi submarine cable system linking Indonesia's Batam and Singapore. Both companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the joint venture during the recent International Telecoms Week 202...

July 18, 2024

Batam

PAG and Ayala JV secure $41.1m loan for data center buildout in the Philippines

A-Flow Properties I Corp. (A-Flow), a joint venture between Ayala Land, Inc. and PAG’s Flow Digital Infrastructure has secured P2.4 billion ($41.1m) loan agreement to fund the development of a data center outside Manila, the Philippines. This loan is to be used for the initial phase of the ...

July 18, 2024

Philippines

SK Telecom to invest in HPC business Smart Global Holdings

Korean telco SK Telecom has revealed that it will be investing $200 million in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure business Smart Global Holdings. The Korean telco will be taking an equity stake in exchange for the cash, and the companies plan to work together to “leverage their ...

July 18, 2024

South Korea

Japan's SoftBank acquires British AI chip designer Graphcore

Japan's SoftBank Group Corp has acquired British chip designer Graphcore, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank, but will continue to operate under the Graphcore name.“This is a tremendous endorsement of our team and their ability to build truly transformative AI technologies...

July 12, 2024

Japan

Tape Ark to migrate West Australian Ballet archives to the cloud

Tape Ark which specializes in mass migration of data stored on tape to the cloud has been awarded a three-year deal to be the Ballet's 'Historical Digital Preservation Partner.' In preparation for the West Australian Ballet's 75th anniversary which will fall in 2027, Tape Ark is set to migrate...

July 12, 2024

Australia

MCC complete the removal of banned Chinese equipment

Mediacom Communications Corporation (MCC) has said that it's on course to complete the removal of banned Chinese equipment from its network this month by its July 15 deadline."To date, 100 percent of the program has been completed across the areas of removal and replacement, and 99 percent of ...

July 10, 2024

China

Storj acquires AI compute provider Valdi

Cloud storage company Storj has acquired Valdi, an artificial intelligence (AI) compute provider, adding AI capabilities to its cloud storage offering with Valdi's GPUs through the process.Storj's chief revenue officer Colby Winegar said: “Today’s enterprises demand new high-performance soluti...

July 09, 2024

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

ESR to sell land acquired for data center in Sydney, Australia

Industrial real estate firm ESR is looking to sell 1.5 hectares at 44-50 Waterloo Rd, which it acquired in 2021 from an AMP Capital fund for AU$71m, and had been earmarked for a data center development. The parcel is currently home to two office and industrial buildings partly occupied by Mac...

July 08, 2024

Australia

Hitachi Construction Machinery migrates large scale systems to Oracle

Japan's Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. is migrating its large-scale systems for accounting, development, production, design, sales, parts, export, human resources, and services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from on-premise.“OCI is the only public cloud that can securely migrate missi...

July 04, 2024

Japan

Rakuten launches mobile services using 700 MHz band

Japan's Rakuten Mobile has confirmed the launch of commercial services via the 700 MHz spectrum called the “platinum band” which was allocated by the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.In a recent announcement, the company noted that it has rolled out commercial services...

July 01, 2024

Japan

Spark to build a data center on Auckland's North Shore

New Zealand telco Spark will be teaming up with global surf park creator Aventuur to build a data center on Auckland's North Shore that will heat a nearby surfing lagoon. The data center will use a heat exchange system to send excess heat to a nearby surfing lagoon and will be partially powere...

June 29, 2024

New Zealand

Gulf Edge partners with Google Cloud for sovereign cloud in Thailand

Google Cloud has partnered with Gulf Edge Company Limited to develop a sovereign cloud offering in Thailand which will enable customers to meet data residency, security and privacy requirements in Thailand, and will also provide access to artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics capabilities...

June 28, 2024

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Australia's CSIRO launches Virga supercomputer

Australia's national science agency CSIRO has launched its Virga high-performance computing (HPC) cluster which comprises of Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers containing Intel Xeon processors, Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU accelerators with 94GB of high-bandwidth memory per GPU, and a Nvidia Transf...

June 27, 2024

Australia

Yotta to go public via SPAC merger

Indian data center firm Yotta, the data center unit of Nidar Infrastructure Limited is to go public on the Nasdaq following a definitive merger agreement with Cartica Acquisition Corp. "Through its Yotta data centers, Nidar is India's leading data center provider for AI and high-performance co...

June 26, 2024

India / Bhārata

CSIRO partners with Alphabet moonshot unit for new inverter prototype

Australia's national science agency CSIRO is partnering with one of Alphabet’s skunkworks projects to develop a new type of smart inverter project to better handle renewable energy on the grid through greater real-time visibility and more simulation capabilities.The prototype smart inverter wa...

June 26, 2024

Australia

IFFCO to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for drone fertilizer spraying

The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperation Ltd (IFFCO) has revealed plans to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for drone-based fertilizer spraying and has built a cloud-native application on Oracle Cloud that enables farmers to easily book, view, and manage drone-based spraying of IFFCO nan...

June 21, 2024

India / Bhārata

Actis unveils Asia-focused data center firm Epoch Digital

Investment firm Actis this week announced the launch of Epoch Digital, with a current portfolio under development offering 200MW of IT capacity across three identified projects and more in the pipeline.CEO Chng said: “The emergence of generative AI is transforming industries at an unprecedente...

June 21, 2024

Taiwan

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