October 11, 2023 Singapore
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 cluster...
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October 09, 2023 India / Bhārata
India's DLF has revealed plans to invest Rs 3,400 crore in its DLF Techpark and data centers in Noida, India. This park, located in Sector 143 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, spans over 25 acres as over 1.2 million square feet of housing, IT blocks, and data center space have been constructed on it so...
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October 06, 2023 South Korea
South Korean firm Solis-IDC recently announced plans to construct a cutting-edge data center in India. Global Forum for Policy and Strategy (GFPS) will facilitate negotiations and representation on behalf of Solis in the Indian market as it looks to invest $2 billion in the country. The company...
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October 03, 2023 South Korea
South Korean internet company Kakao has revealed that its first in-house data center, Kakao Data Center Ansan, is now completed and is ready for full-scale operation in the first quarter of 2024. The center partially opened in 2021 but officially completed construction on September 26, 2023. In a...
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October 02, 2023 Philippines
Philippines telco Globe has secured a $263 million loan with the Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company to finance its network upgrading and debt refinancing. In a press statement, the company had invested $660 million in Capex in the first half of this year. This investment was noted to be 25...
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October 02, 2023 India / Bhārata
West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) is considering a new data center in Siliguri, the Indian state of West Bengal. This new data center will be Webel’s third facility focused on promoting the IT and electronics industries in the Indian state. A senior officer...
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September 28, 2023 India / Bhārata
CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) recently began working on its 40MW data center in Hyderabad, India. The company announced that it has started operations for the first phase of the newly redeveloped International Tech Park at the IT hub of Madhapur. CLI hosted a ceremony celebrating the...
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September 25, 2023 Philippines
Philippines-based telcommunity Dito secured a 15-year $3.9 billion loan to fund the rollout of its network expansion through its parent company, Dito CME Holdings, from a group of multinational banks. The company announced that about $1.5 billion will be diverted towards repaying another loan...
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September 19, 2023 Bangladesh
DataVolt, a new Saudi company, is planning a data center campus outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Local media report that the company intends to invest $100 million to construct a data center on three acres of land in the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City in the Kaliakair district of Gazpur. The announcement was...
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September 19, 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC)
On Monday, SingTel announced that KKR will buy a 20% share in its regional data center business for $806.87 million. SingTel and KKR said in a joint statement that the agreement values SingTel's regional data center business at $4.03 billion and will be utilized to develop in Southeast Asian...
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September 14, 2023 Indonesia
EdgeConneX has shared that it has secured $403.8 million in sustainability-linked financing (SLF). This loan is for its 120MW data center campus development in Jakarta, Indonesia.The deal leverages EdgeConneX's Sustainability Strategy and will reportedly use offshore US dollar borrowing. It...
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September 14, 2023 Indonesia
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) is contemplating selling its Indonesian fiber assets. The Indonesian telco is reportedly assessing its strategy for its fiber business, as Bloomberg reported last week. The assets could be valued at more than $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, which reported...
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September 11, 2023 SK ecoplant: Pohang
SK ecoplant has shared plans for a new 120MW data center campus and landing station in Pohang, South Korea. This will reportedly be the first in Pohang City, and will see four data centers developed with a capacity of 30MW each, to be built by 2027.This comes following the signing of an...
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September 11, 2023 Philippines
Axiata Group is done with the transfer of the remaining towers from PLDT's subsidiaries to its Philippine subsidiary. Thus, the Malaysian company has finalized an agreement to acquire and lease back 2,710 sites. The company declared that the final transfer of the six sites under its agreement...
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September 07, 2023 India / Bhārata
Nvidia has partnered with Reliance Industries and Tata Group, India's two largest firms by market cap. The two companies will construct internal and external AI supercomputers and cloud platforms using Nvidia hardware. With Reliance, Nvidia will construct AI infrastructure "over an order of...
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September 06, 2023 Australia
TPG Telecom is selling part of its Sydney, Australia, data center and office space. Interest submissions can be submitted to Colliers for 30 Ross Street in the Forest Lodge neighborhood until October 3. The building is an "infrastructure-quality asset" with a working data center and extra office...
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September 05, 2023 India / Bhārata
The Indian real estate development company Anant Raj will enter the data center industry. The company announced on its social media and local publications that it will invest $1.2 billion to develop up to 300MW capacity in the county. The company has set up Anant Raj Cloud Pvt. Ltd. as a...
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September 01, 2023 Guam
To enhance Internet quality, the government of Guam intends to construct a solar-powered Tier IV data center on the island. In addition, it intends to construct a new government data center on the University campus. This week, the Office of the Governor revealed the Guam Five-Year Action Plan for...
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September 01, 2023 Guam
A new government data center is proposed for the campus of the University of Guam. The government intends to construct a two-story, 15,000-square-foot data center/Office of Information Technology facility. The endeavor will see an investment of $15 million. The report notes that the 1992-built...
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August 31, 2023 New Zealand
In New Zealand, Aventuur, a leisure park developer, has shared plans to heat a surfing lagoon using a solar-powered data center. The company is already in the process of building a surf park in Perth, Australia, which, it has outlined, is set to open in 2025. In Auckland, meanwhile, it's planning...
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