September 03, 2025 Digital Edge DC
APAC operator Digital Edge and local energy firm B.Grimm Power Public Company (BGRIM) this week celebrated the groundbreaking of their first joint data center in Chonburi. The companies said the project is part of a $1 billion investment plan to deliver hyperscale and AI-ready data center...
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June 25, 2025 Malaysia
Time Energy, the renewable division of Malaysian telco Time dotCom, has launched the country’s first community solar project for data centers. The company signed an agreement with AIMS Group, a colocation and Edge data center provider, which will be the first anchor customer, via the Community...
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June 13, 2025 Malaysia
APACT data center firm DayOne has secured up to 500MW of solar power over 21 years from utility company Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) to power its operations in Malaysia. Power will be provided by TNB’s renewable power subsidiary and power DayOne’s Nusajaya Tech Park, in Gelang Patah, and Kempas...
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January 06, 2025 Digital Edge DC
APAC data center firm Digital Edge has raised more than $1.6 billion in new capital to fund its ongoing expansion plans through a combination of equity and debt financing; this included approximately $640 million of equity investment from both existing and new investors, as well as $1 billion of...
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October 21, 2024 Malaysia
Real estate private equity firm Area Group has begun constructing its 156-acre data center campus in Kedah, northern Malaysia. The firm has now officially purchased the land in a sale and purchase agreement for an undisclosed amount, and begun construction on the first 30-acre parcel of land. The...
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October 21, 2024 Malaysia
Aizo Group has announced plans to build a data center in Sarawak, Malaysia, with Netrunner Sdn Bhd, a special purpose vehicle focused on data center investment in Sarawak. The company will lead the technical development and design of the data center park, which is expected to meet Tier IV...
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August 14, 2024 Malaysia
Telekom Malaysia (TM) has deployed a Private 5G network for oil and gas company Petronas at its LNG Complex in Bintulu, Sarawak. According to TM, this location is one of four Petronas sites installed with a Private 5G network. TM deployed the network along with the Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB),...
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July 31, 2024 Malaysia
APAC data center firm AirTrunk has launched its first campus in Johor, Malaysia and has officially commenced operations at the JHB1 data center . The facility features the company’s first deployment of direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology alongside traditional indirect evaporative cooling...
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June 18, 2024 Malaysia
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: "Petronas...
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June 10, 2024 Digital Edge DC
APAC data center operator Digital Edge has signed an energy partnership with APAC energy firm Peak Energy to “pursue renewable energy production projects designed to power Digital Edge data centers across the region.”“We are thrilled to partner with Peak Energy to scale our renewable energy usage...
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June 03, 2024 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...
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May 27, 2024 Digital Edge DC
APAC data center operator Digital Edge has partnered with South Korean energy storage firm Donghwa ES to develop what it calls a Hybrid Super Capacitor (HSC) as a new type of power supply for its UPS systems to replace lithium-ion batteries at its data centers.Jay Park, chief construction and...
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April 23, 2024 Malaysia
Malaysian firm Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) announced this week that it has sold a former steel complex in Johor to a data center operator in a deal valued at RM162 million ($33.9m) and is set to close in the second half of the year. The buyer wasn’t named, but the terms of the...
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February 27, 2024 Malaysia
APAC operator Bridge Data Centres has revealed new plans for further expansion in Malaysia with a new facility in Cyberjaya. The ChinData subsidiary said the project will offer 87MW across three phases, with the first two phases involving the construction of a three-story data center. “We are...
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February 21, 2024 Malaysia
GDS this week announced a 21-year Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) with Malaysian renewable energy firm, Cenergi SEA Berhad (Cenergi), under Malaysia’s Corporate Green Power Programme (CGPP). Under the agreement, GDS has subscribed to 22.5MWac of renewable power for its Nusajaya Tech Park...
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December 21, 2023 Digital Edge DC
Digital Edge Holdings Ptd. Ltd has purchased the remaining shares of Indonesian digital infrastructure company PT Indointernet Tbk (Indonet) in a transaction representing the full acquisition of Indonet, with the last shares being previously held by Indonet’s founders. Digital Edge CEO Samuel Lee...
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December 08, 2023 Malaysia
Chinese data center developer and operator GDS has raised MYR1.27 billion ($270m) in green financing for its Nusajaya Tech Park data center in Malaysia. The finance was secured from four financial institutions: UOB Malaysia, Bank of China (Malaysia) Berhad, OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad, and...
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December 04, 2023 Malaysia
Malaysian telco Axiata Group Berhad announced last week that it has entered into an unconditional sale and purchase agreement with Spectrlite UK Limited for the sale of Reynolds Holding Limited, which owns approximately 80 percent equity stake in Ncell Axiata Limited. The company mentioned that...
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December 03, 2023 Jakarta
Jakarta-based PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi Tbk (Mitratel) revealed last week that it recently acquired 803 towers from infrastructure operator PT Gametraco Tunggal for around $113 million. The Telkom Indonesia subsidiary noted that this acquisition includes 1.327 tenants, confirming that 562 of...
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November 16, 2023 Digital Edge DC
APAC-focused operator Digital Edge has secured its first green loan worth $335 million to support the first phase of the previously announced 100MW data center project in Seoul (SEL2), South Korea. Once completed, the SEL2 will be the largest commercial data center project in South Korea, and it...
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