Big Data

Goodman Group, an Australia-based digital infrastructure firm, has established the Goodman Hong Kong Data Center Partnership (GHKDC) – a new $2.7 billion data center dedicated investment vehicle.

While the new power tariffs may lead to short-term challenges for data center projects in Malaysia, the country's dominant position in emerging Southeast Asia is unlikely to be dramatically altered, as demand for cloud computing remains strong, BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said Thursday.

BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said hyperscale opportunities are driving Philippines market convergence while Malaysia maintains regional leadership.

Tencent Cloud, the cloud business arm of global technology company Tencent, announced Thursday its commitment to help more South Korea’s web-based enterprises scale and innovate, through artificial intelligence (AI) and media technologies that will usher in more interactive, immersive and sticky user experiences.

Finnish telecommunications company Nokia announced last Thursday that leading Philippine fiber and technology solutions provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. will use its Data Center Fabric solution – a switching platform composed of both hardware and software - to future-proof its new data centers in the Philippines by using artificial intelligence (AI) and…

EDGNEX Data Centers by DAMAC, a global digital infrastructure company backed by the DAMAC Group, a global conglomerate headquartered in Dubai, announced Tuesday the development of a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data center in Jakarta, Indonesia, its second in the market.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced Thursday it will launch its second data center in South Korea by the end of June 2025 in response to the growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services from local businesses.

DayOne Data Centers, a Singapore-based digital infrastructure platform, has announced the signing of a Corporate Renewable Energy Supply Scheme (CRESS) agreement with Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), a Malaysian utility company.

Malaysia-based largest banking group Maybank is underwriting MYR 2.5 billion ($590 million), which is one third and the largest share of the biggest syndicated Islamic financing for data centers in Asia Pacific, to support DayOne Data Centers green data centers in the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ).

Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers has successfully closed its MYR 15 billion ($3.54 billion) equivalent multicurrency financing for sustainable digital infrastructure funding.