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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

Petronas unveil data center cooling fluid

Oil and gas company Petronas Lubricants International announced this week that it will be launching its Petronas Iona Tera, a liquid coolant specifically designed for data centers, and has partnered with Iceotope.Petronas Lubricants International’s MD and group CEO, Hezlinn Idris said: "Petron...

June 18, 2024

Malaysia

Zella DC partners with Laser Light to deploy micro-data center pods

Micro-data center firm Zella DC is partnering with network firm Laser Light to deploy its pods across Australia and globally. Laser Light will be deploying a number of Zella modules to host its networking services as Laser Light and Halo are looking to create a global networking platform – a ...

June 05, 2024

Australia

UEM Sunrise and Logos team up for a data center campus in Johor, Malaysia

Real estate firms UEM Sunrise and Logos are partnering for a data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. According to a new announcement, both companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Logos Infrastructure Holdco Pte Ltd to exclusively explore the opportunity in developing a ...

June 03, 2024

Malaysia

30-meter 4G telecom tower destroyed in Mullumbimby, Australia

A 30-meter 4G telecom tower in Mullumbimby, Australia owned by telco Optus, was destroyed on May 18. The New South Wales Police estimating that this destruction most likely caused by vandals occurred “sometime between 12am and 8pm."Tweed-Byron Police District Inspector Matt Woods said they r...

May 31, 2024

Australia

Edgnex to build new data center in Indonesia

UAE data center firm Edgnex, a Damac-owned firm officially announced its investment into the Indonesian market at the Indonesia Cloud & Datacenter Convention this week.Hussain Sajwani, founder and chairman of Damac Group, said: "Edgenex identifies and invests in current and next-generation...

May 17, 2024

Indonesia

PLDT secures green loan for fiber network expansion

Philippines Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) has secured a green loan from Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) worth 4 billion pesos ($69 million). Proceeds from the loan will be used toward expanding PLDT's fiber footprint, as it seeks to "narrow the country's digital divide, ...

May 08, 2024

Philippines

DXN enters agreement to deliver four cable landing stations for EMCS

Australian data center firm DXN has signed a US$3.8 million contract to deliver four cable landing stations for the East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS), expected to be complete in Q1 of 2025. This would be the first submarine cable connection for the islands of Tarawa, Nauru, and Kosrae.Shali...

May 07, 2024

Australia

TSMC partners with Ansys, Synopsys and Cadence for silicon photonics program

Chipmaker TSMC is partnering with Ansys, Synopsys, and Cadence to develop its silicon photonics integration system capabilities. Engineering firms, Ansys and TSMC are collaborating on the chipmaker’s Compact Universal Photonic Engine (COUPE) silicon photonics integration system while chip des...

May 02, 2024

Taiwan

KYEC to exit china following semiconductor sanctions

King Yuan Electronics Co (KYEC), one of the world's largest testing and packaging services firms, has sold its entire 92.1 percent stake in its King Long Technology (KLT) subsidiary, a manufacturing hub in the Chinese city of Suzhou as the company sets out to leave China. KYEC cites issues ari...

May 02, 2024

China

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