Thailand approves US$ 2.7 billion data center investments
Thailand has approved 90.9 billion baht (US$ 2.7 billion) worth of investments in data centres and cloud services, its investment board said recently. The projects include data centres from China’s Beijing Haoyang Cloud&Data Technology, Singapore-based Empyrion Digital, and Thai company, GSA Data Center 02, it said. Beijing Haoyang’s plan in Thailand includes a 300 megawatt […]
TECO buys 80% stake in Malaysian MEP engineering firm to service data centers
TECO Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd, a Taiwanese conglomerate with diverse businesses spanning 40 countries, has recently acquired 80% stake in Malaysian MEP engineering company NCL Energy Sdn Bhd and its renewable energy subsidiary, in a bid to expand its footprint into Malaysia’s MEP engineering market for data centers and renewable energy. The deal, worth […]
Thailand aims to cut electricity costs by 25% in bid to be data centre hub
Thailand aims to slash electricity costs by more than 25% by next year to emerge as a hub for data centres and artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to Thaksin Shinawatra, the de facto leader of the governing Pheu Thai Party. The government headed by his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra plans to bring down the electricity tariff to […]
Empyrion Digital enters Thailand with BOI approval for 12MW data center
Empyrion Digital, a next-generation digital infrastructure platform, today announced that it has received approval from the Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) to develop its first data centre project (TH1) in Bangkok. The BOI approval paves the way for the development of TH1, a minimum 12 MW (IT Load) facility expected to be ready for service […]
Microsoft cancels 2GW data center projects in US and Europe, says TD Cowen
Microsoft had abandoned data center projects with 2GW capacity in the U.S. and Europe in the last six months due to an oversupply relative to its current demand forecast, TD Cowen analysts said on Wednesday. The tech giant’s withdrawal from new capacity leasing was largely led by the decision not to support additional training workloads […]
Nabeel Mahmood: Cloud & Datacenter Convention, Melbourne, 3rd April 2025
Nabeel Mahmood will be delivering the Opening Keynote at our Cloud & Datacenter Convention (CENTREPIECE at Melbourne Park, 3rd April 2025). His Keynote on “Sustainability across digital infrastructure – what we have learned so far” will consider a number of key factors – the evolution of ‘sustainability’, how the transformation of digital infrastructure is impacting […]