Data Centre News Asia

After a quick recap of the World Cup heartbreak, we dive straight into the massive mega-projects, power grid innovations, and regulatory shake-ups transforming the APAC region. From off-grid AI hubs in the Australian outback to South Korea's staggering trillion-dollar infrastructure push, here is everything you need to know this week. Australia’s 600MW AI Boom: Firmus secures a massive energy...

This week on Data Centre News Asia — Abu Dhabi money, GPU mega-deals, and hyperscalers pushing into new markets across APAC. - MGX circles DayOne — the Abu Dhabi group eyes a buy as the $20B IPO rolls on - DigitalBridge weighs a $2B sale of Malaysia's AIMS DC - Gorilla Technology inks a $2.5B GPU-as-a-service deal on NeutraDC's Batam site - Alibaba Cloud takes its fifth Tokyo facility - Am...

We are finally back together in our unofficial studio. A few phone storage issues meant we had to record an unprecedented three times so if we look a bit frustrated you know why. But nevertheless a number of interesting stories to look at. We discuss: - CtrlS Datacenters securing investment from CPP Investments | Investissements RPC . - Racks Central also securing significant investment to expand...

The stories shaping data centres across Asia-Pacific — everywhere except Australia and India. From DayOne's $4.5B pre-IPO raise to a wave of activity in Korea's Ansan, here's what moved the region. In this episode: - DayOne lands $4.5B Series C, led by Coatue & Hillhouse — pre-IPO ahead of a possible SGX/Nasdaq dual listing - DayOne signs 1.5GW renewable supply deal with TNB in Mal...

An unintended two-week special on account of all the various events going on in Europe and APAC, with Rhys Morgan and I literally all over the place. Given the volume of news, we've broken it into two episodes. In this episode we cover Australia & India. We discuss: IREN planning an 800MW development in South Australia Blue Owl Capital's sale of STACK Infrastructure's APAC business Stockland a...

Flying solo this week with a packed two-week catch-up on Asia's data center scene. From mega financings to a project that got killed over backup generators, here's what went down. In this episode:- DayOne eyes a first-of-its-kind dual IPO in Singapore and the US, targeting $5B to hit a $20B valuation- DDSP closes $283M green loan for its Johor build-to-suit at Sedenak Tech Park, with 1.1GW...

This week on Data Centre News Asia, we cover the biggest deals and developments across APAC's data centre market. AUSTRALIA - Sharon AI signs US$950M cloud computing deal with mystery global tech customer - Capacity to be deployed primarily at NextDC facilities - Alceon invests in INSITE DC — aims to become "the next AirTrunk" - INSITE plans powered land sites across Melbourne &...

We discuss:- CDC signing 'largest ever' data centre deal down in Australia.- Zerra DC filing to develop a major campus in Melbourne. - Stockland filing to develop a 250MW campus also in Melbourne. - STACK Infrastructure exploring the sale of their APAC business for US$30billion. - Gorilla Technology Group aiming to develop a 200MW facility in Bangkok. - Empyrion Digital breaking ground on...

Rhys is in Madrid this week so you're stuck with me solo. Plenty to get through. Here's what i covered: - NEXTDC lands a ~247MW contract — likely heading to S4 Sydney. Possibly the biggest single APAC deal outside China - Google breaks ground on its $15B Vizag AI hub with AdaniConneX and Nxtra by Airtel — three campuses, gigawatt scale - PDG announces JC4 in Greater Jakarta — 240MW, four 6...

This week on Data Centre News Asia: - Air Trunk acquires Lumina Cloud Infra — Blackstone's APAC hyperscale play hits India- Sujay Dedhia stays on as CEO; Mumbai and Chennai pipeline ramping toward 600MW- Air Trunk completes 1MW solar rooftop at JHB1 in Johor- Microsoft commits $18B to Australia — chips, fibre, builds, and grid infrastructure- Why "bring your own power" is shaping the...

From massive renewable energy deals to Bond-villain-style underwater builds, here is everything you need to know this week! This Week’s Highlights: Amazon’s Massive Power Play (Australia): Amazon inks 9 PPAs for 430MW of renewable power (wind, solar, and battery). We debate the "additionality" effect on the green energy market. The India Data Center Boom: AWS: Expanding in Navi Mumbai wi...

Ten years ago, nobody could tell you how many data centres were in London. Or Dublin. Or most major markets. The industry that runs the digital world had no reliable way of counting its own buildings. Ed Galvin founded DC Byte to fix that. He built the company from scratch into the leading global data centre market intelligence platform, secured private equity investment from Kester Capital in 202...

Welcome back to another remote episode of Data Centre News Asia! This week, we’re breaking down mind-boggling billion-dollar investments, rare 100-year bonds, and massive land grabs across the region. Here is the quick breakdown of this week's massive moves: 1 - Google’s Vizag Mega-Campus: Ground is breaking on a staggering $15 billion giga-scale AI campus in India. 2 - Microsoft’s $10B Play:...

Paul Hopkins sold Google their first data center cabinet. He survived the Exodus Communications bankruptcy. He's been closing data center deals since before most of the industry existed. His brother Neil Hopkins — who some of you will recognise from TV's Lost — pivoted from Hollywood into data center sales and somehow that's not even the strangest part of this conversation. Together they run OLH V...

We discuss:- An MOU being signed between the Australian Government and Anthropic Claude. - SHARON AI announcing an exciting new partnership - A potential 70MW facility being developed on an existing site in Macquarie Park, Sydney. - Microsoft announcing plans to invest $5.5billion in Singapore by 2029. Also commits to $1billion in Thailand. - DigitalBridge leading a consortium to acquire NEC Corpo...

Dave Cooper and Ben Boudreau from Zerra DC, formerly AGPDC; join us live at PTC Honolulu. Zerra is a Singapore-based hyperscale developer building sustainable, AI-ready campuses across Japan, Australia and India. Dave spent years designing hyperscale infrastructure at Microsoft and AWS before making the jump to build from scratch. In this conversation we get into what that transition actually look...

Live from the Digital Garden conference in Japan, this week's episode covers major capacity announcements, facility acquisitions, and renewable energy deals across the APAC region. This week's top stories: • AT TOKYO: Signs a 28MW solar PPA with a branch of Mitsui. • CapitalLand: Acquires a 49% stake in a 40MW Osaka facility from Mitsui for $485 million. • Princeton Digital Group (PDG): Ex...

We’re coming to you from a slightly upgraded (and temporary!) setup to bring you this week's biggest headlines across the region.• Google’s Australian Tax Hurdle: Australia is a prime location for APAC overflow capacity, but a potential disagreement over "permanent establishment" tax classifications might complicate Google's massive planned investments.• Bridge Data Centers'...

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of those who celebrate! Our regular jobs got in the way last week meaning Rhys Morgan had to fly solo to deliver the news but don't let that stop you from tuning in. He discusses: 1) AirTrunk securing Japan's largest financing deal with a US$1.2 billion green loan. 2) Princeton Digital Group planing to raise as much as US$5 billion this year for their dat...

Japan's digital infrastructure market is moving faster than most of the industry can keep up with. Last year, Digital Garden Tokyo brought together 80+ companies.mostly C-suite delegations from operators, hyperscalers, investors and government. Real conversations. Real deals done. Japanese-speaking and international participants in the same room, which almost never happens at the big circuit e...

A very busy first week of March, particularly in Australia and Korea. This week we discuss: 1) ByteDance taking 500MW of capacity with VNET Group . 2) Stockland & EdgeConneX formalising their partnership to develop data centres in Australia. 3) Goodman breaking ground on their first Sydney site. 4) CDC opening their first campus in Melbourne. 5) Macquarie Technology Group posting positive fina...

A busy end to February with a number of interesting stories for Rhys Morgan and I to look at. In this episode we discuss: 1) The Malaysia Governement saying 'no' to new non AI data centres. 2) Spark New Zealand spinning off their data centre business to Pacific Equity Partners creating TenPeaks Data Centres. 3) ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (India) launching a new facility in Chennai an...

A historic week for India and Asia-Pacific, with unprecedented investment announcements and infrastructure commitments across the region. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: • Microsoft announces it is on pace to invest $50 billion by the end of the decade to help bring AI to countries across the Global South, including major data centre infrastructure investments in India...

A busy week across Asia-Pacific, with major developments in Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, China and the United States. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: • I Squared Capital reportedly explores sale of APAC data centre firm BDx for up to $2 billion, with investors and other data centre operators expressing interest in the Singapore headquartered company...

A busy week across Asia-Pacific, with major developments in Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Indonesia. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: • KKR led consortium with Singtel to acquire the remaining 82% stake in STT GDC for $6.6 billion, representing an implied enterprise value of approximately $13.8 billion. • Oracle Database@AWS launches in the Sydney AWS...