September 06, 2024 Australia
Blackstone has acquired APAC data center firm AirTrunk from Macquarie Asset Management and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. for US$16.1 billion, making it the largest-ever deal in the space. This deal was secured with funds from Blackstone along with the Canada Pension Plan Investment...
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September 05, 2024 Japan
APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital this week announced it has signed a binding agreement with “one of Japan’s largest diversified financial services groups” to develop a 25MW AI-ready data center in Tokyo. Mark Fong, CEO of Empyrion Digital described the news as a "significant milestone" for...
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September 04, 2024 Australia
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has selected NTT Australia for the 'design and implementation' of its new IT infrastructure. This contract worth AU$12.7 million is part of RBA's CoreMod program, an effort that was revealed at the end of 2023. While this "design and implementation phase" will...
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September 03, 2024 India / Bhārata
Indian airline IndiGo has completed its cloud migration program, shifting all of its workloads to the cloud in less than 18 months. It is using advanced cloud technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to support its services. Neetan Chopra, IndiGo's...
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September 03, 2024 Thailand / Prathet Thai
Thai telco True Corporation has confirmed it's taking legal action against thieves stealing mobile tower equipment from its sites. The company has appointed a legal firm to collaborate with the police on all cases, including thefts of lithium batteries, cables, and base station equipment across...
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September 01, 2024 Taiwan
Zettabyte, which describes itself as “Asia's leading AI data center software and systems technology provider" has announced a strategic partnership with Wistron Corporation, a technology service provider, to build Taiwan's first hyperscale AI data center. Kenneth Chung-Hou Tai, chairman of...
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August 31, 2024 Japan
ESR, an APAC real estate firm this week announced that it has successfully completed the core and shell of its Cosmosquare OS1 data center project in Nanko Kita. The facility will be ready for service in May 2025 and once fitted out, it will provide 25MW of capacity. At full build-out, the $2...
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August 28, 2024 Japan
Singaporean telco Singtel and Japanese giant Hitachi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on “next-generation data centers and GPU cloud” in Japan and potentially the wider Asia Pacific region under the lead of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit. Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel’s...
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August 27, 2024 Japan
Japanese tire company Toyo Tire Corporation has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver a high-performance computing (HPC) system via its GreenLake cloud offering. It will be providing its seventh-generation HPC system, which is three times more powerful than its predecessor, as a...
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August 25, 2024 Indonesia
Indonesian IT service management company Lintasarta has launched an AI cloud service called GPU Merdeka, a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) would be a sovereign AI cloud featuring Nvidia chips. The GPU Merdeka service features GPU servers with a configuration of 8x Nvidia H100 SXM Tensor Core GPUs, with...
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August 20, 2024 South Asia
Singapore's Singtel and the Bridge Alliance are set to launch a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering in Southeast Asia. In February 2024 when the company first announched the launch, it mentioned that Singtel’s GPUaaS will be powered by Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU-powered clusters that are operated...
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August 19, 2024 South Korea
Two Korean AI chip startups with wealthy backers have decided to merge on an equity value ratio of 1:2.4, respectively. The new company will retain the name Rebellions, and be run by Rebellions’ CEO Park Sung-hyun. Sapeon counts SKT, SK Square, and SK Hynix as investors. The company launched its...
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August 14, 2024 Singapore
Princeton Digital Group this week announced the acquisition of Yahoo’s Singapore data center, SG3 which offers 5MW across 5,400 sqm (58,125 sq ft). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure at the facility. Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-founder...
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August 14, 2024 Malaysia
Telekom Malaysia (TM) has deployed a Private 5G network for oil and gas company Petronas at its LNG Complex in Bintulu, Sarawak. According to TM, this location is one of four Petronas sites installed with a Private 5G network. TM deployed the network along with the Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB),...
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August 09, 2024 Indonesia
Indonesian telco Telkomsel has deployed 49 base stations to support 4G and 5G mobile services in the country's new capital city, Nusantara which is set to open on August 17, located on the island of Borneo, 800 miles away from the current capital Jakarta on the island of Java. "By ensuring the...
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August 07, 2024 Japan
Professor Tsumoru Shintake of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that is supposedly superior to the method currently used in semiconductor manufacturing. The proposed method uses smaller EUV light sources, which...
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August 06, 2024 Australia
Australasian real estate fund manager Centuria Capital Group has announced that it has gotten into an agreement to acquire a 50 percent stake in cloud data center provider ResetData for up to $21 million as it plans to expand the group’s revenue stream into a new business line that aims to profit...
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August 05, 2024 Sydney
Australian advisory and IT solutions provider Atturra is expanding its sovereign cloud capacity with a new deployment in NextDC's S3 data center in Sydney, helping the company to meet growing demand from clients for cloud computing and storage capacity. The solutions provider will commence its...
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July 31, 2024 Pakistan
Transworld Associates (TWA) has announced it will land the 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan, the world’s largest subsea cable network, and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points in Europe and Asia. Eight partners including China Mobile International, Baobab, center3, Meta, Orange,...
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July 31, 2024 Malaysia
APAC data center firm AirTrunk has launched its first campus in Johor, Malaysia and has officially commenced operations at the JHB1 data center . The facility features the company’s first deployment of direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology alongside traditional indirect evaporative cooling...
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