Big Data

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.

Australia's AirTrunk has secured $2.325 billion in green project financing under its Green Financing Framework to support the development of its JHB2 hyperscale data center campus in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Singapore is expected to retain its position as Southeast Asia's premier data center hub despite mounting power and land constraints, but stricter sustainability requirements will continue to limit new capacity and push more investment into neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia, BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said in its recent report.

Malaysia-based Sime Darby Property NEV (Holdings) Sdn. Bhd, a member of Sime Darby Property Berhad’s New Economy Venture (NEV) platform, has established a Sukuk Program of up to MYR 2.60 billion ($640 million) to finance the development of build-to-suit-to-lease data centers, and industrial and logistics assets.

London-headquartered Gorilla Technology Group (NASDAQ: GRRR) has raised aggregate gross proceeds of $232 million from two bond financings, directing the capital toward AI infrastructure programs in Indonesia, India, and Thailand.

Vietnam is emerging as a credible secondary data center hub in Southeast Asia over the next five years, benefiting from rapid cloud adoption and a spillover of investment from more constrained markets such as Singapore and Malaysia, BMI Country Risk & Industry Research said on Monday.