East Asia Data Center News

Digital Edge acquires two data centers in Tokyo

Digital Edge has announced that it has acquired two data centers in Tokyo, Japan, from Arteria Networks Corporation. The facilities include ComSpace I, which is based in Nihonbashi, and ComSpace II, which is based in Shinjuku. They have 3,641 sq m (39,100 sq ft) and 9,336 sq m (100,500 sq ft)...

May 11, 2021

Digital Edge: Comspace I (TY02)

Apple officially opens data center in Guizhou China

According to reports, Apple has opened a new data center in Guizhou, China. The data center was jointly built by both Apple and Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd. The data center will offer iCloud services to its customers on the mainland of China. Asides from that, it is also expected th...

April 28, 2021

Apple Guizhou

Global Switch launches final stage of HK data centre

Global Switch has launched the final stage of its Hong Kong center, located in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate. The latest development provides an additional 35,600 sqm and 58MVA of utility. Now, the total infrastructure services of Global Switch Hong Kong's is 70,228 sqm, with a total uti...

March 25, 2021

Global Switch Hong Kong

AirTrunk launches Singapore and Hong Kong Facilities

On the same day, AirTrunk launched into two new markets, Singapore and Hong Kong. The Macquarie-owned AirTrunk is known for building large data centres in Australia and the new sites are no exception. Singapore SGP1 is a 6o megawatt and 20,000 square metres of floor space. The facility is in...

December 10, 2020

AirTrunk Singapore SGP1

Colt DCS launches Inzai 3 near Tokyo

Colt Data Centre Services has completed the construction of Inzai 3, a 27 MW, carrier-neutral facility in Japan. The facility expands Colt's Inzai campus where the company has two hyperscale data centers. Demand has been strong and the new facility is already 90 percent pre-leased.Colt Press R...

November 10, 2020

Colt Tokyo Inzai

Digital Realty Breaks Ground on 1st Facility in South Korea

Digital Realty has begun construction on its first facility in Seoul, South Korea. Digital Seoul 1, also know as ICN10, will be built on a 22,000 square foot land parcel within the Sangam Digital Media City in northwest area of the city.The new facility will have 12 megawatts of critical (IT) ...

June 17, 2020

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

BBIX adds a new IX POP at NTT in Osaka

BBIX, a carrier neutral internet exchange based in Toyko, has launched a third POP in Osaka at NTT's Dojima Data Center.BBIX Press Release link

April 02, 2020

NTT Data Osaka Dojima (Building #4)

Big Data Exchange (BDx) Announces Construction of Nanjing Data Center (PR)

HONG KONG -- BDx announced the construction of its newest data center in Nanjing, China this week, set to launch June 2020. Including facilities currently being acquired, BDx will have eight data centers in cities across two continents, including Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore and Lo...

February 10, 2020

BDx Nanjing

NTT Com’s Osaka 7 to Launch as One of the Largest Data Centers in Japan’s Kansai Region

NTT Com’s Osaka 7 to Launch as One of the Largest Data Centers in Japan’s Kansai RegionTOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO:9432), announced today that it will launch the Osaka...

November 26, 2019

NTT Osaka 7

MC Digital Realty acquires more land in Tokyo to build a 120 MW Campus

MC Digital Realty, a joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty Trust, has signed an agreement to acquire an additional plot of land in Tokyo. MC Digital Realty expects to close on the acquisition in the first quarter of 2020. The location is near to the five-acre parcel M...

September 30, 2019

MC Digital: Tokyo Connected Campus @ Inzai

AirTrunk Announces expansion to Hong Kong with new 20 MW Data Centre (PR)

AirTrunk, a specialist in hyperscale data centres, today confirmed its latest Asia-Pacific data centre development, announcing a new 20+ megawatt (MW) facility in Hong Kong that is set to open in Q4, 2020. The data centre will be located near Tsuen Wan, close to key data centres and Hong Kong’...

September 17, 2019

AirTrunk Hong Kong HKG1

Equinix Opens New Data Center in Seoul

Equinix opened a new data center in Seoul on August 30th 2019. The data center, SL1, is Equinix's first facility in Korea. South Korea has a high tech economy but has been neglected by the large international data center providers such as Digital Realty, Equinix, Cyxtera, and STT. Equinix's e...

August 30, 2019

Equinix Seoul SL1

Digital Realty To Enter South Korea (PR)

SAN FRANCISCO /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire land in Seoul, South Korea for the development of a new, carrier-neutral data cent...

July 30, 2019

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

Amazon deploys Direct Connect Service at Equinix's HK1 Facility

Amazon has deployed its Direct Connect service to Equinix's HK1 facility. HK1 is the second best connected building in Hong Kong, after iAdvantage's MEGA-i building. Resources: Amazon's Announcement Equinix Press Release (below) HONG KONG – May 6, 2019 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the g...

May 06, 2019

Equinix Hong Kong HK1

MC Digital Realty Announce Hyperscale Data Center in Inzai Near Tokyo

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today that MC Digital Realty, a 50/50 joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty, has reached an agreemen...

March 04, 2019

MC Digital Realty-Inazi (NRT10)

Equinix Plans to Open a Seoul Data Center in Q3 2019

Equinix has announced it will be building a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Seoul. It will be the company's first facility in South Korea, with SL1 expected to provide more than 18,000 square feet of co-location space, offering an initial capacity of 550 cabinets in th...

January 18, 2019

Equinix Seoul SL1

Apple will build 2nd Chinese Data Center

Apple is expanding in China again. The company first announce a facility in Guizhou Province. Now, Apple has announced a second data center in mainland China. Apple decided to build facilities to store data behind the Great Firewall of China after the Chinese government passed strict data res...

February 06, 2018

Apple Ulanqab City

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