Big Data

Indonesia’s data center market is set for continued expansion, supported by international private capital, cloud adoption, data localization requirements and spillover demand from Singapore, but growing constraints around power, land, water, connectivity and renewable energy could increasingly challenge the country’s ability to sustain its growth, BMI…

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, NVIDIA, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), and the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs have launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC), Indonesia's first university-based AI technology center.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), a Singapore-based data center operator, has secured a green financing facility of up to $1.37 billion to fund the development of STT Johor, its data center campus in Johor, Malaysia.

Vietnam and Australia will further collaborate in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, cross-border data flows, and undersea cable connectivity.

Singapore investment firm GIC, Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management have on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership to establish Theseus Infrastructure, a new platform to develop, operate and lease data center infrastructure at scale to Anthropic under long-term agreements.

US's artificial intelligence firm CoreWeave, Inc. announced Tuesday its expansion into Indonesia, the company's first data center presence in the Asia-Pacific region.

Singapore-headquartered Bitdeer Technologies has signed a 16-year colocation lease and services agreement with Volta Tydal AS, a subsidiary of AI infrastructure platform Volta, to deliver 121 IT megawatts at its Tydal campus in Norway.

SB Telecom Singapore, a subsidiary of Japan's SoftBank, Singapore's SC ZEUS Data Centers, and Malaysia's Robust HPC Group will collaborate to develop AI data center infrastructure across Southeast Asia, with initial deployments focused on Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Malaysia is the only market among eight surveyed in Asia where 100 percent of respondents plan to increase AI investment, according to a survey of 1,000 IT decision-makers commissioned by China's Alibaba Cloud and conducted by NielsenIQ.

China's technology giant Huawei has launched four AI data center infrastructure solutions in Malaysia targeting power supply, power protection, energy storage, and cooling.