Big Data

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.

Digital Decarbonization Solutions Platform (DDSP), a developer of hyperscale digital and decarbonized energy infrastructure across Asia-Pacific, has completed a $283 million green financing for a hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia, incorporating AI-ready liquid cooling technology.

U Power Limited's controlled joint venture, Hydro Data JV, will collaborate with regional infrastructure developer CEWA Group and hydrogen systems provider Jiangsu Guofu Hydrogen Energy Equipment Co., Ltd. to develop an integrated energy solution for a 100-MWdata center project in Rayong, Thailand.

Taiwan-based TECO Electric & Machinery will acquire a majority stake in Malaysian engineering firm Dynaciate, in a deal worth MYR200 million ($50.8 million), as part of its expansion into Southeast Asia’s AI data center infrastructure market.

Singapore-based Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) will divest from a data center property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States for $14.5 million.

Despite positive spillovers to economic growth and employment, several challenges lie ahead, such as natural resource constraints, limited domestic value added, and questionable impact on long-term employment, the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) said Wednesday.