Big Data

United States digital infrastructure firm Equinix, Inc. has on Monday announced an investment of MYR 23 million ($5 million) to acquire land from Cyberview Sdn Bhd in Cyberjaya to expand its data center capacity in Malaysia.

Moody's Ratings has forecast Asia Pacific (APAC) data center capacity to grow at a compound annual average rate of almost 20 percent through 2028, involving an investment of about $564 billion, as rising computing demand fuels expansion.

United States data center firm Equinix has announced its planned entry into the Philippines with the acquisition of three data centers from Total Information Management (TIM), a technology solutions provider based in the Philippines.

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In the third quarter of 2024, Malaysia is the fastest-growing data center market in the industry’s fastest-growing region, according to new insights released on Tuesday by global real estate and proptech giant Juwai IQI.

Singapore-listed data center real estate investment trust Keppel DC REIT Management Pte. Ltd has entered Japan with acquisition of a hyperscaler data center in Tokyo for S$201 million ($149 million).

Tencent Cloud, the cloud business arm of global technology company, Tencent, has on Thursday sealed a partnership with Nokia, a global provider of network infrastructure solutions, to support enterprises in Singapore and Asia Pacific as they level up their cloud and network infrastructure for the next phase of digital transformation.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced Tuesday the extension of its collaboration with Sarawak Information Systems Sdn. Bhd. (SAINS), an information and communications technology (ICT) systems integrator and solutions provider in Sarawak of Malaysia.

Malaysian information technology (IT) services firm Systech Bhd has partnered industrial-grade servers and storage solutions provider EH Integrated Systems Sdn. Bhd. (EISSB) to develop and operate data centers.

Malaysian telecommunications firm Telekom Malaysia (TM) is partnering Nxera, the regional data center arm of Singapore-based Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, in a joint venture to develop data centers in Malaysia starting with a sustainable, hyper-connected artificial intelligence (AI)-ready data center campus in Johor.