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Capital | Jan Yong

EPG raises US$ 100 million in Series B for global expansion

Singapore-based modular data center specialist, EPG, recently raised nearly US$ 100 million from a consortium of investors co-led by international…

18 hours ago

APAC | Simon Dux

NSW parliamentary inquiry puts data centre growth under the microscope

A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry has been launched to examine the rapid expansion of data centres across the state,…

20 hours ago

APAC | Simon Dux

Victoria claims AI could add AUD 30 bln to economy over next decade

The Victorian state government has released a new AL mission statement that sets out an ambition to position the state…

3 days ago

Capital | Conor McNevin

Amazon considering US$ 50 billion investment into OpenAI?

Amazon is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to invest as much as US$ 50 billion. An investment of this magnitude…

3 days ago

Data Center | Deborah Grey

Tillman Global Holdings to set up 1 GW data center in Maharashtra

Tillman Global Holdings (TGH), a US-based holding company focused on creating, operating and investing in telecommunications and energy infrastructure, has…

3 days ago

Capital | Conor McNevin

Microsoft shares plunge amid investor concerns over AI spending

Microsoft shares experienced a major decline on Thursday, despite the company reporting strong earnings. What reportedly raised investor concerns was…

3 days ago

APAC | Simon Dux

Spark completes sale of 75% stake in data centre business to Pacific Equity Partners

Spark New Zealand has completed the sale of a 75% stake in its data centre business to Australian private equity…

4 days ago

Projects | Conor McNevin

EdgeMode-BAIF JV acquires AI data centers in Spain and Panama

EdgeMode, a global energy and AI data center infrastructure company, has expanded its joint venture with Blackberry Alternative Investment Fund…

4 days ago

APAC | Simon Dux

WinDC and Megaport partner on renewable-powered sovereign AI infrastructure

Australian AI infrastructure provider WinDC has announced a strategic partnership with network-as-a-service provider Megaport to connect renewable-powered “AI Factories” directly…

4 days ago

APAC | Simon Dux

Southern Cross AI launches sovereign AI inferencing node in Sydney

Australian AI infrastructure start-up Southern Cross AI (SCX.ai) has launched what it claims is the country’s first sovereign AI inferencing…

18 seconds ago

Capital | Jan Yong

EPG raises US$ 100 million in Series B for global expansion

Singapore-based modular data center specialist, EPG, recently raised nearly US$ 100 million from a consortium of investors co-led by international…

3 days ago

Capital | Conor McNevin

Amazon considering US$ 50 billion investment into OpenAI?

Amazon is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to invest as much as US$ 50 billion. An investment of this magnitude…

3 days ago

Capital | Conor McNevin

Microsoft shares plunge amid investor concerns over AI spending

Microsoft shares experienced a major decline on Thursday, despite the company reporting strong earnings. What reportedly raised investor concerns was…

3 days ago

APAC | Simon Dux

Spark completes sale of 75% stake in data centre business to Pacific Equity Partners

Spark New Zealand has completed the sale of a 75% stake in its data centre business to Australian private equity…

6 days ago

Artificial Intelligence | Deborah Grey

NVIDIA invests US$ 2 billion in CoreWeave, plans to build AI factories totalling 5 GW by 2030

NVIDIA and CoreWeave, have announced an expansion of their partnership to enable the latter to build more than 5 GW…

6 days ago

Capital | Conor McNevin

UK Gov’t to invest £36 million to increase Cambridge supercomputer’s capacity

The UK government is investing £36 million (US$ 49 million) to increase the power of Cambridge University’s DAWN supercomputer sixfold,…

7 days ago

Business | Jan Yong

DayOne mulls US$20 billion IPO in US; dual listing with Singapore possible

Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers is considering an Initial Public Offerring (IPO) in the United States which could value the data…

2 weeks ago

Business | Jan Yong

Digital Halo secures US$ 46.9 million financing to expand Manila data center

Digital Halo Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based data center operator, has recently secured a PhP 2.78 billion (US$46.9 million) project financing…

2 weeks ago

Artificial Intelligence | Deborah Grey

HUMAIN and Infra announce strategic financing Framework Agreement for AI infrastructure development

HUMAIN, an artificial intelligence company owned by Public Investment Fund (PIF), which is Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, has announced…

2 weeks ago

Capital | Deborah Grey

Syntys acquires Q Data facilities in Qatar

Ooredoo Group, a global communications company, has announced that its digital infrastructure arm Syntys, has acquired Q Data QFZ LLC,…

3 months ago

Data Privacy | Jan Yong

Philippines should enact data sovereignty laws: Exec

Data sovereignty laws should be enacted in the Philippines to attract global technology firms to set up data centers in…

6 days ago

Outages | Conor McNevin

TikTok grinds to a halt after power outage at US data center

TikTok is experiencing service disruptions just days after a new majority American-owned joint venture took control of its US operations.…

2 months ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

Data center cooling system failure causes CME Group to suspend trading

A glitch in the cooling system of its data center, has caused the CME Group, one of the world’s largest…

2 months ago

Outages | Conor McNevin

Cloudflare outage affects global internet services

Cloudflare’s internet infrastructure experienced a significant outage on Tuesday, temporarily taking down numerous major websites for users around the world.…

3 months ago

Outages | Conor McNevin

‘Thermal Event’ at Microsoft Azure data center causes an outage in West Europe

Microsoft Azure experienced a widespread outage in its West Europe cloud region on November 5, after a data center suffered…

3 months ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

South Korea DC fire: Over 60 percent data recovered, five booked for professional negligence

More than 60 percent of the data lost in last month’s fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in…

3 months ago

Outages | Conor McNevin

AWS outage raises concerns in UK

A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) brought parts of the global internet to a standstill on Monday, disrupting…

3 months ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

DEVELOPING STORY | AWS outage impacts over 80 Amazon apps and services, recovery underway

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was hit by an outage on Monday that led to disruption of at least 80 related…

4 months ago

Outages | Conor McNevin

Vodafone recovers from a major service outage in the UK

Over 130,000 customers were relieved to hear that Vodafone has confirmed its UK network is now fully restored, after a…

7 months ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

Cairo DC fire: Four killed, 26 injured in blaze at Telecom Egypt building

At least four people were killed, and 26 others injured in a fire that broke out at a data center…

8 months ago

Outages | Jan Yong

Major power outage at Equinix SG1 in Singapore

A major power outage occurred at Equinix’s flagship SG1 data centre in Singapore this morning between 11:09am and 12.24pm. In…

18 hours ago

APAC | Simon Dux

NSW parliamentary inquiry puts data centre growth under the microscope

A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry has been launched to examine the rapid expansion of data centres across the state,…

20 hours ago

APAC | Simon Dux

Victoria claims AI could add AUD 30 bln to economy over next decade

The Victorian state government has released a new AL mission statement that sets out an ambition to position the state…

4 days ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

Power of the People Act: Why was it proposed, and who is supporting it?

U.S. Democratic party members and senators Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen have introduced a new legislation aimed at shifting…

7 days ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

The House Foreign Affairs Committee advances the AI Overwatch Act

The House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) has advanced the AI Overwatch Act during a full committee markup, moving forward a…

1 week ago

Cybersecurity | Conor McNevin

European Commission proposes new cybersecurity package to strengthen ICT supply chains

The European Commission has unveiled a new cybersecurity package aimed at reinforcing the European Union’s (EU) resilience against growing digital…

2 weeks ago

Connectivity | Conor McNevin

Europe proposes Digital Networks Act to enhance connectivity

The European Commission has proposed the Digital Networks Act (DNA) to update and harmonise EU rules on connectivity networks. The…

2 weeks ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

Thailand approves 7 new data centers valued at US$ 3.1 billion

Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) has approved seven new data center projects with combined investment value of USD 3.1 billion…

3 weeks ago

APAC | Jan Yong

Malaysia tightens rules to prevent ‘phantom’ power demand by data centers

Malaysia is tightening its rules to prevent speculative power applications by requiring data centers to declare their annual demand rather…

3 weeks ago

Policy | Deborah Grey

SPECIAL FEATURE | India lays the roadmap for democratizing access to AI

The Government of India has recently released a whitepaper on AI infrastructure, laying the foundation for making it accessible to…

4 weeks ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

HCMC sets up task force to expedite US$ 2 billion data center

Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has recently set up a 15-member strong task force to expedite regulatory approvals and…

3 days ago

Data Center | Deborah Grey

Tillman Global Holdings to set up 1 GW data center in Maharashtra

Tillman Global Holdings (TGH), a US-based holding company focused on creating, operating and investing in telecommunications and energy infrastructure, has…

4 days ago

Projects | Conor McNevin

EdgeMode-BAIF JV acquires AI data centers in Spain and Panama

EdgeMode, a global energy and AI data center infrastructure company, has expanded its joint venture with Blackberry Alternative Investment Fund…

4 days ago

APAC | Simon Dux

Southern Cross AI launches sovereign AI inferencing node in Sydney

Australian AI infrastructure start-up Southern Cross AI (SCX.ai) has launched what it claims is the country’s first sovereign AI inferencing…

4 days ago

Cloud | Deborah Grey

iXAfrica collaborates with Oracle to deliver Kenya’s first public Cloud Region

iXAfrica Data Centre Limited (iXAfrica), one of East and Central Africa’s largest hyperscale, carrier-neutral, AI-ready facilities, will collaborate with Oracle…

4 days ago

APAC | Jan Yong

Digital Edge to invest US$4.5 billion to build 500MW data center in Jakarta

Stonepeak-backed Digital Edge yesterday announced a US$ 4.5 billion investment to build CGK Campus, a 500MW hyperscale AI-ready data center…

5 days ago

Projects | Conor McNevin

Microsoft’s upcoming data center in Amsterdam raises power and land use concerns

Microsoft has reportedly gained approval from local officials to construct a new data center in Amsterdam’s western port area. Dutch…

5 days ago

Data Center | Deborah Grey

Blackstone plans Rs 10,000 crore data center park in Chennai

Blackstone is all set to expand its digital infrastructure footprint across India, with plans to invest a whopping Rs 10,000…

5 days ago

APAC | Simon Dux

Goodman files plans for 500 MW Sydney campus as expansion continues

Goodman Group has lodged plans for a 500 MW data centre campus at Eastern Creek in western Sydney, signalling a…

6 days ago

Projects | Conor McNevin

Microsoft gains approval for 15 new data centers in Wisconsin

Microsoft has received approval from Wisconsin authorities to build 15 additional data centers in Mount Pleasant, where it already has…

1 week ago

Projects | Deborah Grey

Dongyang to build AI data centers in South Korea

Dongyang, a subsidiary of South Korea’s Eugene Group, is considering building two data centers in South Korea. Local media reports…

4 days ago

APAC | Simon Dux

WinDC and Megaport partner on renewable-powered sovereign AI infrastructure

Australian AI infrastructure provider WinDC has announced a strategic partnership with network-as-a-service provider Megaport to connect renewable-powered “AI Factories” directly…

2 weeks ago

Sustainability | Deborah Grey

Solar to remain key source of sustainable energy for DCs: JLL

Despite its intermittent nature, solar power will remain a key source of sustainable energy for the data center industry, finds…

2 weeks ago

HPC | Conor McNevin

Soluna and Metrobloks partner on renewable-powered AI data center in Texas

Soluna Holdings, Inc, a digital infrastructure company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Metrobloks, LLC, a data center…

2 weeks ago

Power | Conor McNevin

Google enhances its global energy partnerships and PPAs

Global tech giant Google has signed three new long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Clearway Energy Group (Clearway) to power…

2 weeks ago

Power | Conor McNevin

Data centers drive US electricity demand to new record

U.S. electricity demand is set to record its strongest four-year growth streak since 2000, driven largely by the rapid expansion…

2 weeks ago

Power | Conor McNevin

OceanBit and Energy Estate’s partner to use ocean thermal power for digital infrastructure

OceanBit, a developer of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology, and Energy Estate, an energy and infrastructure development company, have…

1 month ago

Power | Conor McNevin

Alphabet to acquire Intersect to power its data centers

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has agreed to acquire Intersect, a data center, energy infrastructure solutions provider for US$…

2 months ago

Sustainability | Jan Yong

How Bridge Data Centres builds on ESG to shape the future of sustainable business and infrastructure

Bridge Data Centres (BDC) does not just adopt ESG principles — it builds its entire business on them. From day…

2 months ago

Sustainability | Simon Dux

Water industry urges national water-efficiency standards for ANZ data centres

Australia’s peak water industry body has called for national water-efficiency standards for new data centre developments, arguing that clearer rules…

2 months ago

Sustainability | Jan Yong

Equinix inks 10 MWp solar deal with ESR, TEPCO

Colocation specialist Equinix, Inc. has yesterday signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with ASSETCO to secure 10 MWp of…