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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.

Swiss specialty chemicals company Sika has acquired Elmich Pte Ltd, a leading supplier of urban greening systems headquartered in Singapore.

Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore, and CenterSquare Investment Management, a real estate investment managed based in the United States, has on Monday announced the creation of a commercial real estate debt co-investment vehicle.

SEEDS Capital (SEEDS), the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG), has appointed 20 new local and global partners to co-invest in innovative Singapore-based deep tech startups.

Additiv, a Switzerland-based digital solutions and platforms for the financial services industry, has on Monday announced the opening of its new office in Jakarta, Indonesia, marking the expansion of its Asia Pacific operations.

FileAI, a Singapore-based enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has on Monday announced it has raised $14 million Series A funding.

In the near term, TikTok’s return to U.S. app stores may feel like a reprieve for ByteDance, the platform’s creators, and millions of loyal users. Yet the fundamental tension - between a Chinese-linked enterprise and American lawmakers skeptical of foreign data harvesting - remains unresolved. 

We talked to Chandra Tjan, Co-Founder & General Partner Alpha JWC Ventures to learn more about the firm’s achievements in 2024, its plans and priorities in 2025. He also shared his views on the outlook of the tech ecosystem in Southeast Asia for the new year.

Gobind said the government is giving serious consideration to DeepSeek and its model, before it can be adapted for local use to keep pace with the rapid development of the AI landscape.