The Asia-Pacific Hyperscale Data Center market is expected to hit a value of US$66.02 billion by 2028.
According to ResearchandMarkets, the market is growing at a CAGR of 6.3%. Among the driving factors in this market include government initiatives in support of data center development, the growth of industrial areas, increase in submarine cable connectivity, investments from cloud service providers and the interests from global colocation operators.
The prominent data center investors in the report are AirTrunk, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Alibaba, Apple, BDx (Big Data Exchange), CDC Data Centres, Chayora, Chindata Group, Colt Data Centre Services, CtrlS Datacenters, Digital Realty, Equinix, Facebook (Meta), GDS Services, Global Switch, Google, Iron Mountain, Keppel Data Centres, LG Uplus, Microsoft, Nxtra by Airtel, NEXTDC, NTT Global Data Centers, OneAsia Network, Princeton Digital Group (PDG), Regal Orion, Shanghai Atrium (AtHub), SpaceDC, SUNeVison Holdings (iAdvantage), Sify Technologies, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Tenglong Holdings Group (Tamron), VNET, Vantage Data Centers, Viettel IDC and Yotta Infrastructure Solutions (Hiranandani Group).
Digitalization efforts by governments is one of the key trends highlighted in the report as seen in countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, India, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China and New Zealand.
The data center industry in Southeast Asia has been experiencing continued growth. Bridge Data Centres (BDC) recently announced the expansion of its hyperscale data centre campus, named MY03, located at MRANTI Park in Kuala Lumpur. This expansion provides an additional 48 MW of IT power to hyperscalers and enterprises in Malaysia and Asia Pacific.
BDC signed an agreement with Malaysian Research Accelerator for Technology & Innovation (MRANTI), Malaysia’s central research and innovation commercialisation agency, to develop 3 buildings and a 132kV substation in MRANTI Park. With the expansion, MY03 will offer a total IT power capacity of 64 MW.
In Indonesia, ST Telemedia Global Data Centre (STT GDC) has launched its first data center facility, the STT Jakarta 1, in the city of Bekasi last week.
As for infrastructure and connectivity, Singapore is embarking on a significant project called the Digital Connectivity Blueprint to enhance its internet and technology infrastructure. The country aims to reinforce its status as an open economy and highly connected hub in Asia by increasing the number of submarine cable landing facilities.
