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Gaw & Sinar Primera to construct new DC facility in Batam, Indonesia

Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners and Indonesian developer Sinar Primera announced a partnership this week to build a data center in Batam, Indonesia. Gaw will be acting as the primary investor in this partnership with Sinar Primera as the development manager will take a min...

November 03, 2023

Batam

6Estates launches Nvidia DGX BasePOD for AI offerings

Singaporean large language model provider 6Estates recently launched an Nvidia DGX BasePOD based on Nvidia GCX H100 systems to develop its AI offerings. The company will use this BasePOD for its "Model Solutions" offering, which provides users with personalized large language models. The clust...

October 11, 2023

Singapore

Princeton Digital Group launches sixth DC campus in Indonesia

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has opened its sixth data center campus in Indonesia with the launch of its 22MW hyperscale data center facility (JC2) in Citibung, Greater Jakarta. Built on the same center as the JCI, the new facility takes the Citibung campus up to 35MW.Varoon Raghavan, COO and...

September 27, 2023

Princeton Digital Group

Opening of AI data center by Changan Automobile and Baidu

The Chinese government-owned automaker Changan Automobile and the technology company Baidu have opened a data center dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). Baidu's cloud service and the Baige heterogeneous AI computation platform power the facility. According to the corporations, the cente...

August 22, 2023

China

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) to power Indonesian data center with biomass

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) will power one of its Indonesian data centers with biomass, following the signing of a renewable energy contract with PT Cikarang Listrindo Tbk (CL). PDG will subsequently power its Cibitung data center with the company's biomass-sourced energy.The facility itsel...

August 09, 2023

Princeton Digital Group

GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

The sovereign wealth fund GIC of Singapore is soliciting funds for a data center outside Seoul, South Korea. According to Business Korea, institutional investors, such as GIC, are working with indigenous institutional investors, securities companies, and asset management firms to build a data ...

July 24, 2023

Singapore

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to b...

July 14, 2023

Equinix

Bitdeer expands: Announces new data centers in Norway and Bhutan

In Bitdeer Technologies Group's latest operations update, it shared details about its upcoming expansion. Linghui Kong, Chief Executive Officer of Bitdeer, noted that its 100MW Gedu mining data center in Bhutan, for example, is almost complete and is expected to be delivered in July. Further t...

July 12, 2023

Singapore

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) signs PCA with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL)

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has signed a 25-year power consumption agreement (PCA) with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) to procure solar energy in India. The deal will see the data center firm receive power generated by a solar project located in Nanded district, Maharashtra. Thi...

June 09, 2023

Mumbai

Singapore's IMDA establishes tropical data facility sustainability benchmark

Singapore has introduced a standard for maximizing the energy efficacy of data centers (DCs) in tropical regions. The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) standard recommends operating centers at higher temperatures to save energy on cooling. Dr. Janil Puthucheary, Singapore's Senior Mi...

June 09, 2023

Singapore

Knight Frank: Mumbai becomes third biggest data center market in Asia-Pacific region

A report by Knight Frank has revealed that Mumbai is now the third-largest data center market in the Asia-Pacific region. Mumbai follows Shanghai, Tokyo, which secured first and second place, with 2,692MW, and 2,575 MW, respectively. In third place, Mumbai now offers a total capacity of 2,337 ...

May 24, 2023

Mumbai

Princeton Digital Group Intends to Construct a 150MW Data Facility in Johor, Malaysia

A new campus for data centers is being built by Princeton Digital Group in Johor, Malaysia. This week, the company announced that it had purchased 31 acres of land from JLand Group (JLG) to construct a 150MW campus in Sedenak Tech Park (SteP). The first 60MW phase, JH1, is expected to be opera...

May 22, 2023

Princeton Digital Group

CLAR Intends to Acquire The Seagate Singapore R&D Facility And Data Center

CapitaLand Ascendas REIT (CLAR) is seeking to acquire Seagate Singapore's research and development facility, which includes a data center, for $163.14 million. The facility, known as 'The Shugart' and located in the one-north district of Singapore, was constructed only eight years ago and was ...

May 19, 2023

Singapore

Atlas and Hicloud partner for underwater data centers

Atlas and Shenzhen Hicloud Data Center Technology (Hicloud) have announced their partnership to explore reducing data center energy consumption. Through this deal, Atlas, an international group providing blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service, is now the first commercial Web3 user of the Under...

May 18, 2023

China

Eaton Obtains a 49% Investment in Jiangsu Ryan Electrical

Eaton has acquired a substantial stake in Jiangsu Ryan Electrical, a Chinese power distribution company. This week, the US power management company stated that it has acquired a 49 percent stake in Jiangsu Ryan Electrical Co. Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of power distribution and sub-transmiss...

April 25, 2023

China

Floating data center park in Singapore to go ahead after gaining regulatory approval

Keppel Data Centres has announced that its floating data center park in Singapore has received approval and will proceed. Located at the Loyang Offshore Supply Base operated by Toll Group, the facility was originally proposed back in 2019, which came after a significant investment in Californi...

April 18, 2023

Singapore

Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray

When it comes to data center cooling, everyone's on the hunt for the latest innovative, efficient tech; and at Singapore's Nanyang Technical University (NTU), its research team is working on the latest solution. The group proposes cooling servers by spraying chips with fluid; dielectric fluid,...

April 11, 2023

Singapore

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

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