South Korea Plans Largest Data Center Cluster in Gangwon Province
South Korea is eyeing Gangwon Province as the prime location for its largest data center cluster. Government sources have unveiled plans for a 1-gigawatt (GW) data center hub near Gangneung and Donghae cities, capable of accommodating up to 50 data centers with an average capacity of 20 megawatts (MW) each. Gangwon Province is located on […]
Saudi Arabia’s Data Center Market poised for growth in 2024
Saudi Arabia ended 2023 as the fastest growing data center market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Today, it has close to two dozen data centers established and operated by major global and regional players such as Gulf Data Hub (GDH), GO Datacenter (Etihad Atheeb Telecom), NourNET, Mobily, etc. According to Mordor Intelligence, […]
AIRTRUNK UNVEILS NEW GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS IN SYDNEY
A destination for top technology talent in Asia-Pacific & Japan Asia-Pacific & Japan (APJ) hyperscale data centre specialist, AirTrunk, today announced the official opening of its new global headquarters (HQ) in Sydney, Australia, providing a homebase for top talent, innovation, and regional growth. AirTrunk, founded in 2015 in Australia, pioneered hyperscale data centres in the […]
Chinese Team’s Breakthrough Shrinks Data Center Storage to DVD Size
A team of researchers in China has developed groundbreaking technology allowing storage of a vast data set equivalent to about 5.8 billion indexed web pages within a device the size of a desktop computer. Published in the journal Nature, the team from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Peking University, and the Shanghai […]