Big Data

China's Zhongji Innolight is studying a large-scale high-tech project in the Yen Phong II-A Industrial Park in Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, with an estimated initial investment of approximately $800 million on around 30 hectares of land, expected to create jobs for around 20,000 workers once operational.

Finland's tech giant Nokia was selected by Thailand's telecommunications giant Symphony Communication to upgrade the Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand subsea cable system, replacing legacy equipment with Nokia's Submarine Line Terminal Equipment.

ESR, an Asia‑Pacific focused real asset owner and manager, acting as sub‑investment advisor to the $1 billion China‑ASEAN Investment Cooperation Fund II (CAF II), announced Monday a strategic investment by CAF II into Racks Central, a Singapore‑headquartered data center platform with a growing regional footprint.

Taiwan's Foxconn and France's Schneider Electric will co-develop integrated solutions for AI data centers, combining Foxconn's expertise in advanced compute platforms and AI rack integration with Schneider Electric's power systems, cooling, and energy management capabilities.

Silicon Valley-based BizLink Holding is set to acquire Interplex Datacom, a Singapore-headquartered division of Ennovi held by Blackstone, in an all-cash transaction valued at $850 million plus up to $50 million in contingent consideration,

Vietnam's technology giant FPT Corporation and global chipmaker NVIDIA have released the Nemotron-Personas-Vietnam dataset, an open-source synthetic dataset designed to help developers build AI systems

Digital Realty, the United States-based cloud and carrier-neutral data center platform, announced Monday the establishment of its Malaysia platform, marking a key milestone in its Asia Pacific expansion.

Singapore-based data center developer and operator DayOne Data Centers has completed the final closing of its Series C equity financing at $4.5 billion, in one of the largest fundraises by a data centre company in the region.

BDX Indonesia, under BDx Data Centers, has secured 1.2 GW of power capacity across its Indonesia portfolio through a strategic partnership with PT PLN (Persero), Indonesia’s state-owned electricity provider.

The Vietnamese government plans to transform VNeID, the country's national digital identity application, into a superapp capable of handling citizen authentication, cashless payments and public services, according to a decision signed by Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung in late May.