Big Data

Singapore’s capacity constraints steer data center growth to Malaysia – Fitch

Singapore’s capacity constraints is expected to steer data center growth to Malaysia, Fitch Ratings said on Wednesday.

Southeast Asia’s data centers gather pace with 85 percent of equity raised since 2024 – Tracxn

Southeast Asia’s data center companies have raised about $11.5 billion in disclosed equity funding across 19 rounds and roughly 85 percent of that capital has arrived since the start of 2024, the period in which artificial intelligence (AI) demand reshaped the region’s infrastructure requirements, Tracxn said on Friday.

Singapore launches world’s first liquid cooling standard for data centers in tropical climates

Singapore has on Thursday launched the world’s first standard to help data centers adopt liquid cooling technologies in the tropics to handle the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.

US’s Digital Realty gets provisional allocation of 50 MW of capacity to develop a new data center in Singapore

Digital Realty, the United States-based cloud- and carrier-neutral data center platform, announced Tuesday it has been selected under Singapore’s second Data Center Call for Application (DC-CFA2), with a provisional allocation of 50 megawatts (MW) of capacity to develop a new data center at Jurong Town Corporation’s low-carbon data center park on Jurong…

ESR appoints Dalmar Sheikh as Chief Executive Officer for data centers

Singapore-based assets manager ESR has appointed Dalmar Sheikh as Chief Executive Officer, ESR Data Centers, effective September 1, 2026.

Singapore allocates 200 MW of new data center capacity to Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel, STT GDC

The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said Friday they have provisionally allocated 200 megawatts (MW) of new capacity to four data center operators Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centers, ST Telemedia Global Data Centers through the second Data Center – Call for Application (DC-CFA2)…

Singapore’s DayOne Data secures $415M green loan for hydrogen-powered data center

DayOne Data Centers, a Singapore-headquartered digital infrastructure company, has secured a four-year, S$530 million ($415 million) green loan from the Singapore banks DBS, OCBC and UOB to fund its first data center in the country.

Vietnam leases 5 hectares to Singapore-backed Evolution for $508M hyperscale data center

The authorities in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City have granted Evolution DC VN HCMC a 50-year lease on about 4.96 hectares of land in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park for a $508 million data center project, invested by Singapore business.

Vietnam’s VNG to buy back data center project stake from Singapore’s STT GDC for $18.3M

VNG Group JSC, a leading technology firm in Vietnam, will buy back a majority stake in VTH Software Development JSC for VND480 billion ($18.3 million), after its Singapore-based partner STT GDC withdrew from a planned data center project on the site of VTH.

China’s Tencent Cloud to build first Malaysia cloud region in Johor, expand AI training

Tencent Cloud, the cloud unit of Chinese technology giant Tencent, will establish its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising up to three availability zones in Johor, and will work with a local university to train more than 1,000 people in AI and cloud skills.