Big Data

Singapore’s data center market continues to anchor Asia’s digital infrastructure landscape, ranking as the second most expensive market globally in Turner & Townsend’s data center construction cost index 2025.

The United States-based LexisNexis Risk Solutions has on Wednesday launched its Asia Pacific (APAC) data center in Malaysia to better serve the Asian market.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence arm of Alibaba Group, has officially announced the launch of its second data center in Dubai.

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DE-CIX Malaysia, the Malaysian subsidiary of the world’s leading operator of Internet Exchanges (IXs), announced Tuesday the launch of its full suite of interconnection services at NTT DATA’s CBJ1 Data Center in Cyberjaya.

Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd., the Singapore-based data center platforms backed by global infrastructure investor Stonepeak, has announced the successful close of an IDR 5.5 trillion ($325 million) corporate facility from PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA) for expansion in Indonesia.

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.