[Opinion] Impact on Southeast Asian data centers if the US-Iran war ends tomorrow
US President Donald Trump has just signalled the US might pull out from the US-Israel and Iran war very soon. US military action in Iran could end in “two to three weeks with or without a deal with Iran,” as reported by the BBC News today, quoting Trump. Passage through the Hormuz Strait which Iran […]
Energy firm AsiaPhos partners China Mobile to capture Southeast Asia data center business
Singapore-based energy solutions firm AsiaPhos Limited announced recently it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with China Mobile International Limited to collaborate on data center and artificial intelligence (AI) computing services in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The duo plan to leverage on each other’s expertise, amongst others, China Mobile will introduce potential customers […]
Southeast Asia has overtaken Northeast Asia, ANZ in data center growth: DC Byte
Southeast Asia has overtaken Northeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand in both capacity growth and pipeline expansion, having recorded significantly higher compound growth rates over the past three years, according to market research firm DC Byte’s latest blog yesterday. Factors responsible for this included land availability, improving infrastructure, and more permissive policy environments. This has led […]
Malaysian data center growth peaked in 2025: Maybank Research
Land sale activities in Malaysia to data center operators have slowed down significantly since 1Q2025, according to Maybank IBG Research’s latest note when giving the 2025 review. “The Malaysian data center sentiment weakened early in 2025 following the US government’s tightening of AI chip export restrictions, which had an immediate knock-on effect on data center […]
[Opinion] Starting 2026 with ‘hallucinations’
It’s 2026 and news of DeepSeek’s much improved capability is all over the place, with some even saying its advanced version, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, performs better than GPT-5 and comparably to Gemini-3.0-Pro on several reasoning benchmarks. This morning, on a whim, I decided to test it out with a task that I always do manually, namely listing […]