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ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

ESR has secured a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) to develop a data center in Hong Kong, it has announced. It has closed the first SLL in Hong Kong, worth HK$1.6 billion (US$205m), which will be used to convert a building in Kwai Chung into the 21.3MW ESR Kwai Chung Data Centre HK1.The compan...

August 03, 2023

Hong Kong

Acronis Opens Kuala Lumpur Cyber Cloud Data Center

Acronis, a provider of cyber security for data, applications, and infrastructure, recently announced the opening of a new cyber cloud data center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This new rollout provides its partners access to a complete suite of cutting-edge cyber protection solutions, allowing fo...

May 14, 2023

Malaysia

AIMS DC commences work on second building Cyberjaya, Malaysia

AIMS Group has announced plans to build a second data center in Cyberjaya to meet data center demand in Malaysia. Work on AIMS Cyberjaya Block 2 is set to be complete by the end of the year, and offer a total IT load of 8MW.AIMS chief executive officer Chiew Kok Hin shared that 90% occupancy i...

May 09, 2023

Malaysia

Malaysia's Digital Economy Takes Off as Country Ranks 22nd in the World for Data Centers

Malaysia has emerged as a serious player in the global data center market, ranking 22nd in the world and second in ASEAN by the Arcadis Data Center Location Index. This is a significant accomplishment for a country that was once overlooked by hyperscalers. According to Wan Murdani from the Mal...

April 26, 2023

Malaysia

Malaysia's Supportive Pro-Business Policies Attract Global Data Center Players

Malaysia is emerging as an important hub for data centers in Asia, with pro-business policies aimed at attracting and retaining investors, according to RHB Investment Bank Bhd. The research house cited the government's commitment to accelerate digital adoption and a new investment policy unvei...

April 18, 2023

Malaysia

MN Holdings partners with China's DC-Science for Malaysian data center

MN Holdings Bhd has announced a partnership with China's Shanghai DC-Science Co Ltd to construct a high-performance data center in Malaysia. This is the latter's first location outside of China. The MoU signed on April 1, 2023, will see a facility, which will span across a 20-acre site at the ...

April 05, 2023

Malaysia

Gaw Establishes New Data Center Company in Collaboration With A3

Gaw Capital Partners with A3 Capital has created a new Southeast Asia-focused data center joint venture platform. This week, real estate private equity company Gaw launched a joint venture to invest in greenfield and failing data center facilities in major Southeast Asian countries. Also, t...

February 23, 2023

Malaysia

YTL announces $256m green loan for Johor data center

YTL Corp has announced that it has secured an RM1.1 billion ($256m) green loan for its upcoming data center in Johor, Malaysia. The fund will be used to develop a 48MW data center in Johor, in the Kulai area, which the company is aiming to obtain Gold LEED certification for. "As one of the key...

January 23, 2023

Malaysia

JLG and Mitsui sign MoU for data center & solar farm in Johor, Malaysia

JL and Group Sdn Bhd (JLG) and Japanese conglomerate Mitsui have announced a partnership that will see the development of a data center and solar farm in Johor, Malaysia. Through the MoU, the two will conduct a joint feasibility study on the development of a hyperscale data center and solar fa...

December 08, 2022

Malaysia

Edge Centres' Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Edge Facility To Come online in July

Edge Centres has started working on its Edge data center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Australian Edge data center company announced that it would be expanding into Asia. The first facility called EC31 is being developed in Malaysia. Edge Centres scheduled the site to be completed in July. Th...

June 30, 2022

Kuala Lumpur

Many Companies Line Up To Buy Time Dotcom's Data Center Business

According to Bloomberg, many companies including BDx, DigitalBridge, STT GDC, Digital Edge, and STT GDC are exploring options of acquiring Time Dotcom’s data center assets. The long line of suitors are currently performing due diligence on the data center assets. Offer for the assets could be ...

June 30, 2022

Malaysia

Angelo Gordon To Develop a 20MW Data Center in 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 ...

June 22, 2022

Hong Kong

YTL's solar-powered data center campus

YTL Power recently announced the development of a 500MW solar-powered data center campus in Johor, the first of its kind in Malaysia. 30km from Singapore, the data center park is based in the Iskandar region of Johor, where 275 acres of the site will be dedicated to data center development off...

May 11, 2022

Malaysia

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

Hong Kong

Telekom Malaysia: Green electricity tariff secured for three data centers

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has announced that it has secured a Green Electricity Tariff (GET) for three of its data centers: Klang Valley Core Data Centre (KVDC) in Cyberjaya, Iskandar Puteri Core Data Centre (IPDC) in Johor Baru, and KL City Data Centre (CTDC) in Brickfields. The GET from Tenaga N...

April 05, 2022

Malaysia

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

Hong Kong

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

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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