Big Data

FLOW Digital Infrastructure (FLOW), a Singapore-based data center developer and operator in Asia Pacific, has appointed Ken Marron as Chief Technology Officer, effective immediately.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced Wednesday its latest strategic plans to launch data centers across eight countries including Malaysia.

Malaysia's Johor has firmly established itself as Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing data center hub, with aggregate supply nearly doubling over the past 12 months to 5.8 gigawatts (GW) as of the second quarter of 2025, Knight Frank said Thursday.

Knight Frank’s Asia-Pacific Data Center report showed Wednesday that in the first half of this year, the region secured nearly 13 gigawatt (GW) of new project announcements, a 160 percent increase and more than double the 5GW announced in the same period last year.

Vantage Data Centers, a global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, announced Thursday that it has secured a $1.6 billion investment to scale its Asia-Pacific (APAC) platform.

Malaysia is on track to secure over $40 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) and data center investment by 2030, a new research from global talent solutions partner Robert Walters showed Wednesday.

Amazon announced Monday the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region with potential investment of NZ$7.5 billion ($4.4 billion).

IJM Construction Sdn Bhd, a wholly‑owned subsidiary of Malaysia-based IJM Corporation Berhad (IJM), has been awarded a MYR 1.4 billion ($330 million) contract for the construction of a large‑scale data center facility in Johor Bahru.

Indonesia's largest private hospital network Siloam Hospitals is accelerating digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven innovation with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

Vietnam's CMC Corporation has signed a memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Samsung C&T, South Korean enterprise in construction, trade, and technology, to build a hyperscale data center project in Ho Chi Minh City with total investment of $1 billion.