August 29, 2025 Singapore
The Singaporean government has launched a new standard to support data center operators. The standard - SS 715:2025: Energy Efficiency of Data Centre IT Equipment - aims to save energy consumption of IT equipment in data centers by at least 30 percent.The standard will also aid data center users...
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August 26, 2025 Digital Realty Trust
Colocation giant Digital Realty this week announced the opening of its latest data center in Lagos, in the Lekki area of the city, adding nearly 2MW of IT capacity across nearly 1,205 sqm (13,000 sq ft) of data hall space. The facility will be interconnected with Digital Realty’s existing LKK1...
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May 30, 2025 Singapore
Singaporean infrastructure developer Vena Global has launched a new subsidiary focused on the development of AI-ready data center infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region, with plans to create a digital infrastructure developer that is highly integrated with low-carbon energy...
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May 22, 2025 Digital Realty Trust
Colo data center developer Digital Realty has signed an agreement to purchase 5.1MW of solar power from Summit Ridge Energy. The solar projects are part of Summit Ridge’s broader portfolio of solar assets across the state of Illinois. According to the company, its Illinois portfolio has a...
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May 20, 2025 Singapore
Global private markets firm Partners Group is set to acquire Singapore-based Digital Halo- a data center operator with facilities located across Southeast and North Asia. The company is currently owned by Arch Capital, which will remain a minority shareholder in the business.Following the terms...
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November 27, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Croatian cloud solutions and data center provider DataBox has taken over Digital Realty's cloud services in the country. This move will enable Digital Realty to "realign" its offering in Croatia and focus on acting as an infrastructure provider instead of a cloud service provider in the...
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November 20, 2024 Singapore
Keppel DC REIT this week announced the proposed acquisition of two hyperscale data centers at the Keppel Data Centre Campus in Singapore from a joint venture owned by its parent company. Keppel will continue to operate and manage the two facilities post-acquisition. The deal would be for S$1.03...
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October 03, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty this week announced that it has amended, extended, and upsized its existing $3.75 billion senior unsecured multi-currency global revolving credit facility to $4.2 billion. The maturity date was extended by three years and total availability was expanded by $450 million which now...
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September 12, 2024 Singapore
A data center fire incident in Singapore has caused issues to Alibaba's cloud services. The company said it occurred in Availability Zone C of its Singapore region."At 10:20 on September 10, 2024 Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected network access anomalies in availability zone C of...
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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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July 25, 2024 Singapore
Quantinuum has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with several Singaporean institutions to provide the city-state with access to it's H-Series and Helios quantum computers and collaborate on quantum computing use cases. Other signatories of the MoU include Singapore’s National Quantum Office,...
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May 24, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty this week announced the signing of several power purchase agreements (PPA) to power its European operations in France and Spain. The company signed a package solar deal comprising three separate 12-year agreements in Spain and two 15-year deals for wind energy in France. Together,...
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May 17, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty this week announced the launch of a direct liquid cooling (DLC) offering, available in 170 Digital Realty data centers globally. The company noted that the offering includes a range of mechanical solutions, such as rear door heat exchangers (RDHx) and DLC, offering power densities...
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May 10, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has broken ground on a new data center outside Tokyo, Japan, marking its third data center at the NRT campus in Inzai, Chiba prefecture. This new 31MW facility, known as NRT14, will be configurable to support private AI deployments at densities up to 70kW per rack via air-assisted...
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April 24, 2024 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has revealed that it will be partnering with energy firm Enel X to roll out grid-balancing UPS systems in Ireland. The integrated battery banks, housed within Digital Realty’s Irish data centers, will relieve grid dependence on fossil fuel power plants during periods of frequency...
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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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March 05, 2024 Singapore
Telkom Indonesia has consolidated its Singapore data centers under one umbrella unit ahead of a potential sale. The company wrote on LinkedIn that this marks a “significant milestone in our journey toward becoming a regional powerhouse in the data center industry,” “The rationale behind this...
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February 27, 2024 Singapore
Empyrion DC, a Singapore-based data center operator, has secured a green loan worth S$133 million (US$98 million) to refinance its SG1 Dodid data center in Singapore, with proceeds used to “support existing operations” at the 12.5MW facility. This financing was provided by the UOB bank. Mark...
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February 09, 2024 Singapore
Singapore-based startup Amperesand, which makes SSTs that could replace standard transformers in electricity distribution, has been given $12.5 million in funding to develop solid-state transformers (SSTs), which could make electricity grids more efficient and flexible. "We are thrilled to...
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