February 08, 2023 China
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...
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February 03, 2023 Japan
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...
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January 27, 2023 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...
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December 23, 2022 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,...
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November 08, 2022 Osaka
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 completed in...
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October 03, 2022 Shanghai
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 services...
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September 26, 2022 China
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...
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September 23, 2022 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...
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September 23, 2022 Japan
NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building,"...
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August 17, 2022 Taiwan
Taiwanese telecommunication company Chunghwa will be developing a new data center in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The company revealed that the board approved the development of the Lunping Internet Data Center. The new data center will feature five floors above ground and a basement. Its floor area will...
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July 15, 2022 Japan
As the race for more sustainable power options continues in the data center industry, a raft of alternatives have been proposed, from solar to green hydrogen. However, perhaps one option that few expected is ammonia, which is now being pegged as the next major renewable fuel. Joel Moser, CEO of...
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June 22, 2022 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 Kong....
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May 30, 2022 South Korea
The US Air Force’s 51st Communications Squadron has started work on its new HQ at the 51st Fighter Wing Osan Air Base in South Korea. The new headquarters will feature a data center with updated network operations. In addition, the data center will also serve as the alternate action team, focal...
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May 23, 2022 Tokyo
Japanese real estate company Hulic has plans to develop a data center in Tokyo, Japan. According to the Japanese press and Japan Property Central, the firm will be building the data center on the site of an existing office it owns. The office is located in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Hulic will demolish...
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May 16, 2022 AirTrunk Tokyo TOK2
TOK2 increases AirTrunk’s capacity to over 410MW in Japan and 1.2GW across Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ). Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) hyperscale data centre specialist, AirTrunk is strengthening its presence in Japan, announcing plans to build a new 110+ megawatt (MW) hyperscale data centre in...
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April 27, 2022 China
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 for...
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April 26, 2022 South Korea
Hong Kong’s real estate private equity company Gaw Capital Partners has made a considerable investment in Dreammark One. Gaw announced that it signed agreements with IMM Investment Corp to invest in the South Korean data center company through a fund under its management. The investment details...
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April 14, 2022 Japan
The White Data Center (WDC) in Japan's North Island of Hokkaido, is a research project run by the city of Babai. It initially ran between 2014-2019, in collaboration with Japan's NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) research body. Its aim was to research how snow...
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April 14, 2022 South Korea
The Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology is looking into developing data centers underwater. The South Korean government is funding the project to allow KIOST to develop a submarine working and living space for people. The project will cost up to 37.3 billion won ($30.8 million). In...
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April 12, 2022 China
Three Gorges Group has announced that it has completed the first phase of its Dongyuemiao data center project in Yichang, Hubei. Work began on the project back in February 2021. The Chinese energy company outlined that the facility's first phase saw an investment of RMB 845 million ($132.7m),...
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