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Shinsegae Group, Reflection AI to Build 250MW AI Data Center in South Korea

Shinsegae Group and Reflection AI plan to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, set to be the country’s largest sovereign AI facility.The two companies signed an MoU in San Francisco this week, attended by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnic, outlining their intention to form a joint ventu...

March 19, 2026

South Korea

SGC Energy to Build 300MW Data Center in North Jeolla

South Korean energy company SGC Energy is set to build a 300MW data center in Gunsan, marking its first foray into the AI data center business.The 300MW facility will be built at the Gunsan National Industrial Complex 2, the largest of two industrial areas located around Gunsan that house ship...

February 05, 2026

South Korea

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan

Nanto City and data center firm GigaStream Toyama are planning to develop a large-scale cluster known as the Nanto Campus. The site, located on land outside Toyama within Nanto City, will reportedly support up to 3.1GW upon completion.Renders suggest two-buildings are planned in the first phas...

January 09, 2026

Japan

Zettabyte and Chief Telecom Upgrade Taiwan Data Center

Taiwan's Zettabyte, a GPU Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider this week announced the successful retrofit of Chief Telecoms’s legacy data center into a direct-to-chip liquid cooling-ready facility capable of hosting 100kW+ racks, which are Nvidia GB300 ready."This milestone showcases how Zett...

October 30, 2025

Taiwan

Stack Secures Green Financing for Data Center in Tokyo

Stack Infrastructure has secured a 39.7 billion yen ($247.7m) green financing package to develop its data center campus in Japan's capital, Tokyo. The first stage of the 36MW TKY01 campus in Inzai, Greater Tokyo, is set to come online next year, offering 18MW, with the additional capacity set ...

October 27, 2025

Tokyo

Engie Provides Chillers for Data Center Customers

The German cooling division of French utility Engie is to provide cooling equipment to data center customers in South Korea and the Netherlands. The firm said it would be supplying a total of 28 Quantum Air chillers with a total cooling capacity of 58.8MW to an unnamed data center in South Kor...

October 06, 2025

South Korea

Warburg Pincus Break Ground on 80MW Facility in South Korea

Investment firm Warburg Pincus this week announced that it has partnered with DC Connects, a South Korean data center developer, and Wide Creek AMC, a Seoul-based asset manager, to acquire a greenfield site in Yongin City and develop an 80MW data center.Dongkun Cho, principal of Warburg Pincus...

September 25, 2025

South Korea

OpenAI Considers Data Center in South Korea

OpenAI is considering developing a data center in South Korea. OpenAI's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, said the company was open to partnerships regarding data center construction. He added that the ChatGPT-maker could expand its cooperation with the likes of Samsung and SK Telecom, and ...

September 11, 2025

South Korea

Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster

Vast Data is teaming up with SK Telecom on the latter's AI cluster - the Haein Cluster was launched earlier this month with 1,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs, building on SK Telecom's existing offering based on Nvidia H100s.“Vast Data’s unified architecture has been instrumental in helping us move from l...

August 15, 2025

South Korea

MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has partnered with Kinetics, an energy systems provider, to develop a floating data center platform. Both companies are to collaborate on the design, construction, and deployment of a data center hosted on a retrofitted vessel.The partnership w...

July 07, 2025

Japan

CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group

Data center provider CloudHQ has formed a joint venture with real asset manager ESR Group for the Cosmosqure data center project in Osaka, Japan. Located in Nanko Kita, 10km (6.2 miles) from Osaka’s central business district, the campus will see an investment of $2 billion to deliver a planned...

January 22, 2025

Japan

EdgeConneX to expand into Japan

Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced plans to develop a facility in the greater Osaka-Kyoto area alongside Kagoya Asset Management. The EdgeConneX greater Osaka-Kyoto data center development is targeted to be ready-for-service in 2027 with a total capacity of more than 140MW when f...

January 15, 2025

Japan

GDS rebrands international unit to DayOne

Chinese data center firm GDS has changed its name and officially launched as an independent company as of January 1, following the recent completion of a series B funding round. Established in 2022, what was then GDS International was founded to hold GDS Holding’s data center assets and operat...

January 06, 2025

China

Akamai to end CDN services in China

US-based cloud computing and Content Delivery Network (CDN) company Akamai plans to end its CDN in China, ending services in the country on June 30, 2026, the company said in a letter to customers. After this point, any remaining content requests will be automatically served from neighboring c...

January 04, 2025

China

Vertiv acquires tech and assets from BSE

Vertiv's Chinese subsidiary has acquired centrifugal chiller technology and assets from BiXin Energy Technology Co. (BSE), a manufacturer of chillers, heat pumps, heat-recovery solutions and air-handling units.“This acquisition supports our capital allocation strategy, which includes adding te...

December 21, 2024

China

Vnet to set up data center investment fund with Dajia

Chinese data center operator Vnet is setting up a data center investment fund with Chinese insurance company Dajia. The fund will be jointly operated by Vnet and Dajia subsidiary Dajia Investment Holding Company and will make its first investment in Vnet’s Taicang IDC campus in the Jiangsu pro...

December 03, 2024

China

CPP partners with Pacific AMC for South Korea data center

Pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) this week announced a KRW 1 trillion (US$711 million) joint venture with Pacific Asset Management Company (Pacific AMC) to develop carrier-neutral hyperscale data centers in South Korea.“The demand for data centers in Asia Pac...

November 23, 2024

South Korea

Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers

Japan's Rakuten Group is set to deploy Ampere hardware across its data centers. The company is expanding its partnership with Ampere Computing to reduce the power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) computing.Hironori Yoshida, executive officer and vice director of the cloud platform s...

November 23, 2024

Japan

Alibaba Cloud revenue up 7% for the quarter

China's Alibaba Group saw its cloud computing business revenue grow by seven percent during Q3 2024. According to Alibaba CFO Toby Xu, AI-related product revenue has achieved triple-digit year-over-year (YoY) growth for the fifth consecutive quarter, which "triggers" more demand for the compan...

November 18, 2024

China

Goodman completes Hong Kong data center

Real estate firm Goodman this week said it has completed the third building at its Goodman Tsuen Wan West data center campus and handed over the 50MW facility to Chinese operator GDS.Goodman’s head of Asia, Paul McGarry, said: “This is the latest data center completion at the brand new 225MW G...

October 04, 2024

Hong Kong

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