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Gaw Capital Partners Acquires Building For Data Center in Tokyo, Japan

Gaw Capital Partners has announced the acquisition of a building in Tokyo, Japan. The real estate private equity firm also plans to transform the building into a data center. The Fuchu Building it acquired is next to Meito Sangyo Building in Fuchu Intelligent Park. Gaw will demolish the 59,...

April 08, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tokyo

ESR to expand in Tokyo

ESR Cayman has announced its plans to develop a new 20MW data center in West Tokyo, Japan. This comes following the company’s acquisition of a data center asset in Higashi Kurume, which spans 20,900 sqm (225,00 sqft). Looking ahead, the company has said that its new facility will be operation...

April 07, 2022

Japan

Vantage-Occupied Complex in Hong Kong Acquired For $371 Million

A Vantage-occupied facility in Hong Kong has been acquired by the Asia Pacific Cities Fund (APCF). The complex acquired is located at 43 Container Port Road. It is also a fully occupied data center with a 14MW capacity across 270,000 square feet of gross floor area. The deal was worth HK$2....

April 07, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hong Kong

Alibaba Launches Data Center in Seoul, South Korea

Alibaba Cloud has announced the opening of a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. The company first revealed plans for a South Korean cloud region last year. It currently operates 82 Availability Zones and 26 regions across the globe. Alibaba’s head of Cloud Intelligence for Japan and Korea,...

March 31, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Seoul

Telehouse Opens Fifth Data Center in London

Telehouse has announced the launch of its new data center in London, UK. This will be the company’s fifth data center in London. This data center is being built in stages. The first stage sees development of 2MW of capacity and up to 668 racks, across 18,300 square feet of space and two dat...

March 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Telehouse South

Pacific Asset Management and CPP Investments Are Teaming Up To Develop Hyperscale Data Center In Seoul

Pacific Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have formed a joint venture for the sole purpose of developing a hyperscale data center in Seoul, South Korea. The two companies announced that they would be investing KRW 200 billion (US$164.4 million) to develop the largest ca...

March 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Seoul

Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in Hong Kong

Carrianna Group has announced the launch of a new data center in the Kwai Chang industrial area, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong property firm, Jun Gao Holdings Company Limited and Dr. Quentin Tsang jointly invested in the data center. The property has a gross floor area of 2,100 square meters (23,00...

March 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hong Kong

NEC and SCSK are Forming a Data Center Joint Venture

Two Japanese firms are coming together to form a data center joint venture. NEC and IT firm SCSK Corporation revealed that they are partnering up to strengthen their network and data center business involvement. The JW will see the firms create SCSK NEC Data Center Management, ltd. The new ...

March 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Japan

SC Capital Partners Launches Zeus Data center Plans Hyperscale Facility in Seoul

Singapore’s SC Capital Partners (SCCP) has announced the launch of a new data center firm. The real estate investment firm says it will be developing hyperscale facilities across Asia. Zeus Data Centers, backed by SCCP, launched its website and social media pages in the summer. Reports show...

March 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Seoul

NEDO announces fund for new green data center research

Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has announced that it will be funding projects pushing forward greener data centers with its Green Innovation Fund. A number of companies have been selected to work on the project. This includes Fujitsu, NEC Corporati...

March 01, 2022

Japan

GLP To Invest $12b in Developing Data Centers in Japan

GLP has revealed its plans to enter the Japanese data center market. The company is looking to develop data centers with up to 900MW of capacity over the next five years in the market. In addition, it will also invest up to $12 billion to bring facilities to live. By so doing, the Singapore...

February 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Japan

Singapore and Silicon Valley tie second place in data center rankings

According to Cushman & Wakefield's 2022 Global Data Center Market Comparison report, Singapore now ties with the US's Silicon Valley in its league table of the top data center markets. This means that Singapore is now the top market for data centers in Asia-Pacific, beating Hong Kong (6th ...

February 03, 2022

Singapore

Unoccupied Data Center in Hauppauge, NY, sells for $21m

An unoccupied data center in Hauppauge, New York, has been acquired for $21 million. According to Newsday, Link Logistics, a subsidiary of Blackstone, bought the property. Link Logistics plans to tear down the building and redevelop it as a Class A distribution center. The data center sits on ...

February 02, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

Etix Everywhere Acquires a 67% Stake In Thailand’s Genesis Data Centers

EtixEverywhere has announced that it has bought the majority interest in Genesis data center. The company revealed that it acquired a 67 percent stake in the Thai data center. The cost of the investment is pegged around AU$15.2 million (US$10.8m). Genesis operates a data center in Bang Chalong...

January 26, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Bangkok / Krung Thep

AIIB to invest $150 million in new data centers

Multilateral bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), has announced that it is making a significant investment in new data center development, with $150 million. The Beijing-based company will direct the funds through the Keppel Data Centre Fund II (KDCF II). Current reports outline t...

January 24, 2022

Beijing

Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds lifts, but what's next?

This week, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister made an announcement that the country's moratorium on new data center builds, which was introduced back in 2019. Minister Gan Kim Yong said that going forward, a "more selective" approach to new builds will be taken.In a written reply to a par...

January 17, 2022

Singapore

Telehouse moves into Bangkok

Telehouse has announced that it is introducing a new data center to Bangkok, Thailand, which according to the company, is the first of its kind in the area, and will launch the company's third location in Southeast Asia.Spanning 9,000 sqm (97,000 sq ft), the facility, based in the Rama 9 busin...

January 14, 2022

Telehouse Bangkok

TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022.The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and i...

January 06, 2022

Hong Kong

Beijing warning over data center construction

In light of the global push to reduce carbon emissions, Beijing outlined in a plan published on Wednesday that local governments in China should ensure that the "blind and disorderly development" of data centers is carefully monitored and prevented. Moreover, it stated that governments should ...

December 09, 2021

Beijing

ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which w...

November 25, 2021

Hong Kong

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