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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

Toshiba Will be Purchased by Japan Industrial Partners For $15 billion

Japan Industrial Partners Inc. (JIP), a Japanese investment firm, will take Toshiba private. Last week, the Japanese conglomerate revealed that TBJH Inc., an indirect subsidiary of JIP, would buy out all of the company's shares on the Tokyo and Nagoya Stock Exchanges and take the business priv...

March 24, 2023

Japan

Samsung SDS has launches a new data center in South Korea

Samsung SDS has announced the opening of a new data center in South Korea. This new addition is part of wider plans to expand its cloud offering, and make Samsung Cloud Platform (SCP) available to all customers. Its new Dongtan IDC, spans six floors with four server rooms, and will focus on AI...

March 22, 2023

South Korea

Oxford Quantum Circuits Will Install Quantum Computer at Equinix Japan Data Facility

A quantum computer is being installed at an Equinix data center in Tokyo, Japan, by the UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC). This week, the company said that starting in late 2023, it will provide "Quantum Computing as a Service" through a system on Equinix's TY11 Tokyo International Bus...

March 15, 2023

Equinix Tokyo TY11

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

Japan Meteorological Agency Receives 31 Petaflops Supercomputer From Fujitsu

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has received a new 31.1 petaflop supercomputer from Fujitsu. The new system will be used to forecast the probability of linear rainbands, which can result in floods and landslides and is anticipated to be operational in March 2023. Cumulonimbus clouds that...

March 01, 2023

Japan

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

Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center

AirTrunk has announced that it has broken ground on the second phase of its TOK2 data center located in Tokyo, Japan. This follows the groundbreaking of the first phase only three months ago. The company has outlined that the new phase is scalable to approximately 50MW of capacity and custom-...

February 22, 2023

Tokyo

South Korea launches data center for AI research

South Korea's science ministry recently announced the opening of a computing data center to conduct AI studies. The Research Data Center of AI Innovation Hub, in the Seoul campus of Korea University, is a computing lab with 35 petaFLOPS computers. It has been reported that this will permit up ...

February 21, 2023

South Korea

Hanwha and SKS Credit: Big investment in green data centers for South Korea

Hanwha has announced that it will invest in 'green' data centers following signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with SKS Credit, an ESG professional manager (PEF), for joint development of data centers and logistics centers linked to new and renewable energy. Through the agreement, the ...

February 08, 2023

South Korea

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

IIJ announces sustainability efforts with rooftop solar power system

Japanese ISP Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has announced its sustainability efforts with the installation of a 336kWp rooftop solar power system at its Shiroi data center campus in Chiba Prefecture. The solar panels, primed to generate approximately 373MWh annually, 3 percent of the fac...

February 03, 2023

Japan

Optage to build new data center in Osaka, Japan

Optage Inc. has announced plans to build a new data center in Osaka, Japan. Named the 'Optage Sonezaki Data Center', this facility will be the company's fifth, with work to commence in November 2023 and due to open in January 2026.The facility will be located in the Higashi-Umeda area of the c...

January 27, 2023

Japan

Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

Alibaba has established a data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company stated in December 2022 that its Alibaba Cloud/Aliyun division had opened a third data center in Japan to "meet the transformation expectations" of clients. Unique Song, General Manager of Japan for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, ...

December 23, 2022

Tokyo

ESR Already Developing its 19.2MW OS1data center in Osaka, Japan

Asia’s ESR Group has started work on its 19.2MW facility in Osaka, Japan. The real estate company revealed that the Cosmosquare OS1 data center would be phase 1 of its three-phase facility at Nanko Kita. The company plans to develop a total of 96MW on the site. OS1 is scheduled to be comple...

November 08, 2022

Osaka

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

Bosung Group to expand in South Korea

Bosung Group is expanding its data center footprint in SolaSeaDo, South Korea, with the addition of a new 200MW data center campus in SolaSeaDo, to the south of the country in Jeonnam Province. These expansion plans come following the company partnering up with The Green Korea (TGK), a joint v...

September 23, 2022

South Korea

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