August 20, 2024 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 operated...
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June 12, 2023 South Asia
A new data center has been opened by the University of Turbat (UoT) in Balochistan, Pakistan. Governor Malik Abdul Wali Khan Kakar inaugurated the conclusion of the first phase and the first phase of the 1MW solar initiative at the university. The capacity of the data center is unknown at this...
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March 22, 2023 South Asia
The Housing Development Corporation (HDC) has launched a new containerized data center in Hulhumale, the Maldives, which is to be operated under its SmartCom brand. Although specific details about the container are yet to be shared, it reportedly features a redundant battery backup system which...
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March 01, 2023 South Asia
Ncell has announced that it has launched a new data center in the Nakkhu area of Lalitpur, a city located just south of Kathmandu, in Nepal, following an investment of around Rs 2 billion ($15.1m). Work began on the facility in 2018 and was completed in 2021. According to Ncell, the facility is...
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February 28, 2023 South Asia
Nepali telecom Ncell has opened a new data center in Lalitpur. The Axiata-owned telecommunications company has reportedly established a new data center in the Nakkhu neighborhood of Lalitpur, just south of Kathmandu. The corporation invested over $15,1 million in the project, which it claims is...
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March 29, 2022 South Asia
Nepal-based telecommunication company Subisu has opened a new data center in Kathmandu. According to reports, the data center can withstand tremors up to 8 Richter Scale. Although the facility's specifications were not revealed, Vertiv supplied the facility with its switches and racks....
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February 15, 2022 South Asia
The government of Pakistan has announced that it has opened a new data center in Islamabad, namely the National Information Technology Board (NITB) (NITB Staging Environment). Federal Minister for Information and Technology, Syed Amin ul Haq, inaugurated the PKR. 330 million ($1.88m) facility,...
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January 25, 2022 South Asia
Pakistan-based telecommunication company Jazz has launched a new data center facility in Islamabad, Pakistan. The 3MW data center cost the company $8 million. It currently has 300 racks, with a capacity to be expanded in the future to 450 racks. According to Jazz, the new facility is the largest...
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October 21, 2021 South Asia
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has been devastating for millions. There has been radical transformation and destabilisation ever since. As part of the coup, Taliban forces targeted cell towers and critical infrastructure. According to figures from the ATRA in June, a total of 301 telecoms...
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