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Month: July 2021

GOI launches eVidya to provide access to online education

The Government of India has launched PM eVIDYA, an effort to create a digital platform for education. This has been initiated as part of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan on 17th May, 2020, which unifies all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education to enable multi-mode access to education. The initiative includes: DIKSHA (one nation, one digital platform) […]

South Asia Cloud and Data centre Summit 2021

The demand for data centres has been on a constant rise, ever since the COVID19 pandemic began and people started working from home. The increase in the number of data centres has also led to a concern with regard to the consumption of electrical energy. According to a report in Cooling India, in data centers, […]

Sunseap and BP Batam to build world’s largest Floating Solar Farm

Sunseap Group and Badan Pengusahaan Batam (BP Batam) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the building of a floating photovoltaic system (FPV) and energy storage system (ESS) on a reservoir in Indonesia’s Batam Island. The project is estimated to be around US$2 billion, the company said. As per the MOU, Sunseap will develop […]

Gaw Capital Partners Completes Data Center JV with Industry Veteran Mr Wong Ka Vin

Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners today announced the establishment of a new joint venture operating company, Data Center First Pte Ltd., with Mr. Wong Ka Vin as the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer with its maiden project in Batam, Indonesia. Data Center First, headquartered in Singapore, is a data center operator and […]

HK emerges as the 3rd most attractive Data Centre location in APAC: Cushman & Wakefield

Even as political uncertainties and the pandemic have played out incessantly throughout the year, data centre investment market in Hong Kong has remained robust. Global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, in a report has said that Hong Kong advances to the third most attractive data center location in Asia Pacific and is highly […]

Huhtamaki India migrates on-premise data centre to Yotta in Mumbai

Huhtamaki India, one of India’s leading manufacturers of primary consumer flexible packaging and labelling materials, has migrated its captive, on-premise data centre to Yotta NM1 data center at Panvel, Navi Mumbai. Huhtamaki India is a part of Huhtamaki Oyj, a Finnish-based global food packaging major. The Huhtamaki team outsourced the data centre management to Yotta […]

IBM and BIAL partner to create “Airport in a Box”

IBM and Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), operator of Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB/BLR Airport)  have entered into a ten-year partnership to create a new “Airport in a Box” platform that will aid passengers in their travel experience. As one of the fastest-growing airports in the world, Bangalore airport needs a cost-competitive technology and operations […]

Solar solutions provider MYSUN to develop 200 MW of projects in India

MYSUN, a company which provides technology platform for distributed solar solutions and services is looking to develop 200 MW of projects in India. The company announced this along with its plans to raise Rs 15 crore in debt funding from TATA Cleantech Capital Ltd (TCCL). TCCL is a joint venture between Tata Capital Limited (‘TCL’) […]