AWS signs PPA with Gentari for 80MW wind power project in Tamil Nadu
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with clean energy provider Gentari Sdn Bhd for an 80MW wind energy project in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The project is expected to commence operations in mid-2027, and generate approximately 300,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy annually. In a statement, Gentari […]
Bridge Data Centres to use reclaimed water from treated effluent for its Johor data centres
Bridge Data Centres (BDC) will be the first data centre in Johor, Malaysia, to repurpose treated effluent as reclaimed water for operational use following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Johor Special Water (JSW), BDC said in its Linkedin post today. The MOU is made possible through strong collaboration with Indah Water […]
PDG’s Tokyo DC and two more APAC facilities get OCP Ready for v2 for Hyperscale certification
Princeton Digital Group (PDG), a prominent data center provider with presence across APAC, has achieved the OCP Ready™ v2 for Hyperscale certification from the Open Compute Project Foundation for three of its facilities including its TY1 AI ready data center in Greater Tokyo. Developed by the OCP Foundation, the OCP Ready™ v2 for Hyperscale program […]
Thailand data center investments hit US$16.1 billion from 28 projects in 1H 2025
In the first half of 2025, the data center business alone attracted a combined investment value of 521.2 billion baht (US$16.1 billion) from 28 projects, while the renewable energy sector saw 191 applications totalling 42.24 billion baht (US$1.3 billion) of investment amid soaring demand for cloud services, the Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) announced recently […]
China to build national cloud service to sell excess computing power
China is taking steps to build a network to sell computing power and curb the unchecked growth of data centres that’s causing a capacity glut and threatening its viability, according to Reuters recently, quoting sources familiar with the matter and a document sighted by them. The state planner is conducting a nationwide assessment of the […]