June 21, 2024 India / Bhārata
The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperation Ltd (IFFCO) has revealed plans to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for drone-based fertilizer spraying and has built a cloud-native application on Oracle Cloud that enables farmers to easily book, view, and manage drone-based spraying of IFFCO nano...
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June 21, 2024 Taiwan
Investment firm Actis this week announced the launch of Epoch Digital, with a current portfolio under development offering 200MW of IT capacity across three identified projects and more in the pipeline.CEO Chng said: “The emergence of generative AI is transforming industries at an unprecedented...
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June 18, 2024 Malaysia
Oil and gas company Petronas Lubricants International announced this week that it will be launching its Petronas Iona Tera, a liquid coolant specifically designed for data centers, and has partnered with Iceotope.Petronas Lubricants International’s MD and group CEO, Hezlinn Idris said: "Petronas...
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June 05, 2024 Australia
Micro-data center firm Zella DC is partnering with network firm Laser Light to deploy its pods across Australia and globally. Laser Light will be deploying a number of Zella modules to host its networking services as Laser Light and Halo are looking to create a global networking platform – a...
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June 03, 2024 Malaysia
Real estate firms UEM Sunrise and Logos are partnering for a data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. According to a new announcement, both companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Logos Infrastructure Holdco Pte Ltd to exclusively explore the opportunity in developing a...
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May 31, 2024 Australia
A 30-meter 4G telecom tower in Mullumbimby, Australia owned by telco Optus, was destroyed on May 18. The New South Wales Police estimating that this destruction most likely caused by vandals occurred “sometime between 12am and 8pm."Tweed-Byron Police District Inspector Matt Woods said they...
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May 17, 2024 Indonesia
UAE data center firm Edgnex, a Damac-owned firm officially announced its investment into the Indonesian market at the Indonesia Cloud & Datacenter Convention this week.Hussain Sajwani, founder and chairman of Damac Group, said: "Edgenex identifies and invests in current and next-generation...
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May 08, 2024 Philippines
Philippines Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) has secured a green loan from Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) worth 4 billion pesos ($69 million). Proceeds from the loan will be used toward expanding PLDT's fiber footprint, as it seeks to "narrow the country's digital divide, but...
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May 07, 2024 Australia
Australian data center firm DXN has signed a US$3.8 million contract to deliver four cable landing stations for the East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS), expected to be complete in Q1 of 2025. This would be the first submarine cable connection for the islands of Tarawa, Nauru, and Kosrae. Shalini...
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May 02, 2024 Taiwan
Chipmaker TSMC is partnering with Ansys, Synopsys, and Cadence to develop its silicon photonics integration system capabilities. Engineering firms, Ansys and TSMC are collaborating on the chipmaker’s Compact Universal Photonic Engine (COUPE) silicon photonics integration system while chip design...
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May 02, 2024 China
King Yuan Electronics Co (KYEC), one of the world's largest testing and packaging services firms, has sold its entire 92.1 percent stake in its King Long Technology (KLT) subsidiary, a manufacturing hub in the Chinese city of Suzhou as the company sets out to leave China. KYEC cites issues...
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April 23, 2024 Malaysia
Malaysian firm Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) announced this week that it has sold a former steel complex in Johor to a data center operator in a deal valued at RM162 million ($33.9m) and is set to close in the second half of the year. The buyer wasn’t named, but the terms of the...
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April 18, 2024 Australia
Australian logistics firm Team Global Express has migrated to the cloud with help from Infosys in a program which required moving more than 300 application. This move was achieved without any business impact to the 4,000+ users or to network integration spread over 100 sites. Danny Gravell, CIO...
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April 16, 2024 Australia
Cooling company Accelsius, which provides two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems, this week officially announced the launch of its new two-phase cooling system, NeuCool, its in-rack solution. The company says NeuCool offers capacity that has been tested beyond 1,500 watts per server chip...
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April 09, 2024 Australia
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has announced that it is set to start work on a AU$2.5 billion ($1.7bn) data center campus in Queensland, Australia. The first phase of development at the campus, known as Supernode, will see a 250MW battery energy storage system (BESS) installed at the site. The...
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April 09, 2024 Singapore
Alibaba has revealed that it is now slashing its prices by as much as 59 percent for customers "from the US to Singapore." This comes shortly after the company's March 2024 announcement that it would be cutting cloud costs for its Chinese customers by up to 55 percent with the hope of winning...
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April 08, 2024 Singapore
Singaporean real-estate firm Asia-Pacific Strategic Investments Limited (APS) this week announced plans to acquire a 100 percent stake in Taiwanese sustainable data solutions provider, Mobii Genius Co., Ltd., for US$150 million. “Creating green data processing and storage facilities is of...
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April 03, 2024 Japan
Digital Core REIT has acquired an additional 10 percent share in a data center in Osaka, Japan via Digital Core REIT's subsidiary, Digital CR Singapore 4 Pte. Ltd., for JPY 7,725 million (~$51.5m), from Mitsubishi Corporation. The Osaka data center is a freehold facility with a 95 percent...
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March 25, 2024 India / Bhārata
Police in India have arrested nine people for stealing cell tower equipment worth 60 lakh across Telangana state. The gang stole a variety of equipment from various sites, including Remote Radio Units (RRUs), Remote Radio Heads (RRHs), Base Band Units (BBUs), and cell tower cable wires of Bharti...
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March 25, 2024 Indonesia
NEC has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Telkom Indonesia as part of a collaboration to develop smart cities in Indonesia's new capital city, Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN). According to NEC, the MoU aims to "create a more sustainable and livable environment for citizens by adopting...
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