Blackstone mulls selling AirTrunk’s Johor data center
Blackstone-owned AirTrunk, has instructed financial institutions, Citi and CIMB, to search for capital partners for its Malaysian data center, JHB1, a 150-megawatt hyperscale data centre in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, according to the Australian Financial Review (AFR) yesterday, quoting sources who declined to be named. JHB1 was opened last year and currently hosts several big-name customers […]
AI infrastructure consortium acquires Aligned Data Centers for US$ 40 billion
A newly formed consortium comprising the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has announced the acquisition of Aligned Data Centers in a transaction valued at US$ 40 billion. In a press release, Aligned Data Centers revealed that the deal involves purchasing 100 percent of the equity from private infrastructure […]
Cisco announces dedicated data centers in Mumbai and Chennai
Cisco has announced that it will build data centers in Mumbai and Chennai to cater to its contact center services in India. This local presence supports compliance with India’s telecom regulations, and data residency requirements. Data residency has increasingly drawn attention across South Asia and the Middle East. India has its own Digital Personal Data […]
Malaysia’s power demand from data centers projected to rise 7 times by 2030
Malaysia is projected to see a sevenfold rise in data centers’ power consumption, from just 8.5 TWh in 2024 to 68 TWh in 2030 which will make up about 30 per cent of the country’s total power demand in 2030, Ember, an energy think tank revealed recently. “This is equivalent to adding Singapore’s entire power consumption […]
Firmus partners CDC on Southgate to scale to 1.6 GW
Firmus Technologies has announced a strategic alliance with CDC Data Centres and NVIDIA to expand Project Southgate, its large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure programme that aims to deliver sovereign AI capability powered entirely by renewable energy. The expansion extends the project’s planned capacity to 1.6 gigawatts across Australia and introduces the company’s “AI Factory” platform […]