Big Data

Singtel’s regional data center arm, Nxera DCT Pte Ltd., has secured a S$643 million ($476 million) five-year green loan to finance the development of a new 58MW data center in Singapore, DC Tuas.

The Ministry of Digital of Malaysia and Google Cloud have on Wednesday announced the launch of “AI at Work 2.0,” a joint initiative to equip public officers with Google Workspace’s latest generative AI (gen AI) capabilities, empowering them to transform public service delivery.

Looking ahead, we clearly face a future where bandwidth demand will only grow, especially with the increasing pervasiveness of #AI and the resulting need for more capacity. As far as #datacenters are concerned, this means that in order to support this new future, the focus will need to move beyond simply building more – to connecting more.

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI), a Singapore-based global real asset manager, has acquired a freehold land parcel in Osaka to develop its first data center in Japan which will entail a total investment of more than $700 million.

The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) has on Wednesday approved a 126.8 billion baht ($3.77 billion) data hosting project by leading global video content platform TikTok, and a 3.25 billion baht ($96.61 million) cloud services project by Thailand-based cloud services firm focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) applications Siam AI.

While the recent US Framework for AI Diffusion presents a dent to Malaysia’s booming DC space, Hong Leong Investment Bank Research said Wednesday that Malaysian government supportive policies will provide a competitive advantage in data center (DC) investment.

MIDF Research said Monday that the fear over the United States' artificial intelligence (AI) chip export curbs on Malaysia's data center development may have been overblown.

Global real estate firm JLL has on Thursday announced a strategic expansion of its data center capital markets platform to align closer with the unique requirements of data center investors, operators, and end-users.

Hong Kong-based real asset manager ESR Group Limited and global data center provider CloudHQ have entered into a joint venture on $2 billion Cosmosquare data center campus in Nanko Kita, Osaka, Japan.

BDx Data Centers, an Indonesia-based data center operator, has announced a data center cooperation agreement with the Association of Indonesia Internet Service Providers (APJII) that will bolster the nation’s digital ecosystem.