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Princeton Digital Group launches sixth DC campus in Indonesia

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has opened its sixth data center campus in Indonesia with the launch of its 22MW hyperscale data center facility (JC2) in Citibung, Greater Jakarta. Built on the same center as the JCI, the new facility takes the Citibung campus up to 35MW.Varoon Raghavan, COO and...

September 27, 2023

Princeton Digital Group

Opening of AI data center by Changan Automobile and Baidu

The Chinese government-owned automaker Changan Automobile and the technology company Baidu have opened a data center dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). Baidu's cloud service and the Baige heterogeneous AI computation platform power the facility. According to the corporations, the cente...

August 22, 2023

China

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) to power Indonesian data center with biomass

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) will power one of its Indonesian data centers with biomass, following the signing of a renewable energy contract with PT Cikarang Listrindo Tbk (CL). PDG will subsequently power its Cibitung data center with the company's biomass-sourced energy.The facility itsel...

August 09, 2023

Princeton Digital Group

ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

ESR has secured a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) to develop a data center in Hong Kong, it has announced. It has closed the first SLL in Hong Kong, worth HK$1.6 billion (US$205m), which will be used to convert a building in Kwai Chung into the 21.3MW ESR Kwai Chung Data Centre HK1.The compan...

August 03, 2023

Hong Kong

Princeton Digital Group Intends to Construct a 150MW Data Facility in Johor, Malaysia

A new campus for data centers is being built by Princeton Digital Group in Johor, Malaysia. This week, the company announced that it had purchased 31 acres of land from JLand Group (JLG) to construct a 150MW campus in Sedenak Tech Park (SteP). The first 60MW phase, JH1, is expected to be opera...

May 22, 2023

Princeton Digital Group

Atlas and Hicloud partner for underwater data centers

Atlas and Shenzhen Hicloud Data Center Technology (Hicloud) have announced their partnership to explore reducing data center energy consumption. Through this deal, Atlas, an international group providing blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service, is now the first commercial Web3 user of the Under...

May 18, 2023

China

Eaton Obtains a 49% Investment in Jiangsu Ryan Electrical

Eaton has acquired a substantial stake in Jiangsu Ryan Electrical, a Chinese power distribution company. This week, the US power management company stated that it has acquired a 49 percent stake in Jiangsu Ryan Electrical Co. Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of power distribution and sub-transmiss...

April 25, 2023

China

Highlander completes first underwater facility and looks to develop net-zero wind-powered data center

According to a report by ChinaDaily, Highlander, one of the companies driving innovation in the underwater data center space, has announced that work on its first commercial facility is complete, for which it is now looking for export buyers. Further to this announcement, the company has outli...

April 06, 2023

China

ByteDance announces pledge for carbon neutral operations by 2030

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, which historically, has been criticized for not “keeping up with its peers,” has announced its pledge to achieve carbon-neutral operations by 2030. The company has outlined that while it will seek to reduce its operational carbon footprint by 90%, it will rely o...

March 27, 2023

China

CapitalOnline Data Service Buys data Center Builder Outside Beijing

A company planning to construct a 3,200-rack data center in Huaili County, China, has been purchased by Chinese cloud provider CapitalOnline Data Service. This week, the company bought Huailai Wisdom Cloud Port Technology's entire equity stake. The company just recently received authorization ...

March 24, 2023

Beijing

OPPO pledges to become carbon neutral across its global operations by 2050

OPPO has announced its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality across all its operations by 2050, the latest to do so. This pledge was made in the company’s OPPO Climate Action Report: Climate Pledges and Low Carbon Development Strategy, at MWC 2023. The company outlined that the greatest so...

March 02, 2023

China

Princeton Digital to expand Asian data center footprint

Singapore-based Princeton Digital has announced plans to develop more data centers in Asia, in a bid to support operations in its global headquarters. To do this, the company is injecting an investment of $1 billion. With this, the company is expanding into Batam with a 96-megawatt facility, o...

February 27, 2023

Princeton Digital Group

CapitaLand's Beijing plans have green focus

CapitaLand has announced the launch of its China-focused data center development fund, namely CapitaLand China Data Centre Partners (CDCP), through which it is planning two new facilities located outside Beijing, with a focus on sustainability.According to the company, the two development proj...

February 23, 2023

China

NetEase Breaks Ground On Guizhou Data Center

NetEase Inc., a Chinese Internet business, has begun construction on a new data facility in Guizhou province. According to China Daily, this month the company began work on its first large data center in Guian New Area in southwest China. The campus, situated on 7,3 hectares, will support NetE...

February 08, 2023

China

Telstra signs wind PPA with Ark Energy to procure renewable energy

Telstra has signed a power purchase agreement with Ark Energy, part of Korea Zinc Co, to procure from a wind farm in Queensland. This will be supplied from Ark’s 30% share of the 923.4MW MacIntyre Wind Farm, based near Warwick, which is projected to be the largest wind farm by 2025. Speaking a...

October 09, 2022

Telstra

Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus

Chayora, a Hong Kong-based data center operator, has announced that it has completed the construction of its first data center on its new Shanghai campus in China. The company first announced the campus back in November 2021, and in partnership with EdgeConneX, Edge will offer computing servic...

October 03, 2022

Shanghai

China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers

Back in May 2021, Greenpeace said that China's data center emissions were to double, with its energy usage expected to nearly quadruple by 2035 (increasing by an estimated 289%). "Explosive growth" in digital infrastructure was identified as a major contributing factor to this. Considering the...

September 26, 2022

China

Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in Hong Kong

Angelo Gordon, a New York-based equity group, has plans to develop a data center in Hong Kong. According to Mingtiandi, the company has submitted an application with the town planning board to build a 20MW data center. The data center will be located at No. 3 Kin Tai Street, Tuen Mun, Hong ...

June 22, 2022

Hong Kong

Lendlease begins construction on 100 MW data center campus in Japan for Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced that Lendlease has commenced work on its 100MW data center campus. The two held a groundbreaking ceremony in Saitama City, north of Tokyo, to mark the occasion. According to reports, the data center is pegged to be one of the largest in Japan and wi...

June 15, 2022

Princeton Digital Group

Alibaba shares new green goals

Alibaba has announced that it has joined the Low Carbon Patent Pledge (LCPP), which is an international platform that encourages companies to share patents for low carbon technologies. In line with this pledge, the company will make nine key patents for green data center technology available f...

April 27, 2022

China

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