February 16, 2023 Melbourne
Under a sale-leaseback agreement, Telstra is offering a minor exchange facility in the environs of Melbourne for sale. The east Melbourne neighborhood of Rowville's 12 Lambourne Avenue is being put up for sale by the Australian telecom. A brick structure of 1,430 square feet on one story, sitting...
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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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November 16, 2022 Sydney
DigitalOcean has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with a new data center in Sydney, Australia, namely SYD1. This new facility is reportedly connected to DigitalOcean's private internet edge and backbone network, providing 400 Gbps of on-net access to Asia, North America, and...
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October 09, 2022 Telstra
Telstra has signed a power purchase agreement with Ark Energy, part of Korea Zinc Co, to procure from a wind farm in Queensland. This will be supplied from Ark’s 30% share of the 923.4MW MacIntyre Wind Farm, based near Warwick, which is projected to be the largest wind farm by 2025. Speaking...
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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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July 22, 2022 Singapore
Singapore has announced the end of its data center moratorium and is now accepting new applications for facilities, following Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Economic Development Board's (EDB) pilot scheme launch. The moratorium was originally put in place back in 2019 due to...
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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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June 20, 2022 Singapore
Evolution Data Centres has announced the launch of its new Sustainable Data Centre Charter, through which it measures its entire operations, with the aim of minimizing carbon intensity and limiting water usage as the company grows. The charter includes the target of emitting 20 tonnes of carbon...
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May 23, 2022 Singapore
MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX), a crypto exchange regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has announced it is teaming up with AI firm Red Dot Analytics, for carbon measurement and to offset tropical data centers. Singapore implemented a three-year moratorium on new data center...
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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 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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April 11, 2022 Singapore
Although back in 2019, Singapore introduced a data center moratorium following concerns around energy supplies, in 2022, this moratorium was lifted - with conditions. Part of these conditions was that the country would be more selective over future data center projects. Further details around...
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April 08, 2022 China
Three Gorges Group has announced the completion of the Dongyuemiao data center project's first phase in Yichang, Hubei. The Chinese energy company revealed that the project's first phase cost RMB 845 million ($132.7m). The project has also been in development since February last year. This phase...
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April 07, 2022 Hong Kong
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$2.88...
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March 18, 2022 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 (23,000...
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March 01, 2022 China
Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba, has announced that it is on track to have its global data centers running entirely on clean, renewable energy by 2030. As part of its green pledge and push towards more sustainable operations, the company has announced that it is upgrading five of its...
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February 24, 2022 Sydney
According to ITNews, Fortius has listed its data center at 549 Harris Street, Sydney, Australia, for sale through JLL and CBRE. The data center is currently being occupied by Optus. Optus’ lease on the data center will expire in 2024 with no further option for expansion. This is a 60,300 square...
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February 22, 2022 China
China has announced that it has approved a large-scale project to build eight national integrated computing hubs with ten data center clusters. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and three other central departments (the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of...
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February 13, 2022 China
According to Bloomberg, GLP Pte is mulling over raising up to $500 million to expand its data center footprint in China. The Singapore-based investment manager wants to raise funds from investors in exchange for a minority stake in the firm. GLP Pte’s data center business is valued at up to...
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