JTC, NUS to test green data center innovations on Jurong Island
JTC Corporation (JTC) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National University of Singapore (NUS) to collaborate on a study commencing in 2026 on the establishment of a Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed Phase 2 facility on Jurong Island. According to a press release by JTC, the testbed expands the scale and […]
World Bank, PDT, Ditrolic Energy to jointly develop 2,000km sq US$ 6 billion renewables zone in Johor
The World Bank Group (WBG), Permodalan Darul Ta’zim (PDT), the strategic investment arm of the Johor State, and Ditrolic Energy, an integrated energy company, have yesterday signed a collaboration agreement to jointly develop the Southern Johor Renewable Energy Corridor (SJREC), one of the largest renewable energy corridors in the world, a joint press release by […]
Google launches TalayLink subsea cable connecting Thailand and Australia
Google Cloud today introduced TalayLink, a new subsea cable connecting Australia and Thailand which will establish a new, diverse path to Thailand via the Indian Ocean, west of the Sunda Strait, where many existing subsea cables currently route, states Bikash Koley, Vice President, Google Global Infrastructure, Google Cloud, in a press release. “Named after the […]
Vantage Data Centers completes purchase of Yondr’s 300MW data center in Johor; closes US$1.6B investment in APAC
Global provider of hyperscale data centers, Vantage Data Centers, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Yondr Group’s 300MW hyperscale data center campus in Johor as part of its US$ 1.6 billion equity investment into its Asia-Pacific platform. The equity investment was led by an affiliate of GIC, a global institutional investor, and […]
Malaysia’s palm oil firms cashing in on data center boom
Palm oil companies in Malaysia are turning parts of their vast tracts of land into industrial parks to be filled with data centers and solar farms spurred by foreign interest in setting up data centers in the country. Palm oil giants control more land than any other entity in the country and this is a […]
Princeton Digital Group breaks ground on USD 1 billion, 120 MW Jakarta campus
Singapore-based data center provider, Princeton Digital Group (PDG), today broke ground on its 120 MW AI-ready hyperscale data center campus in Greenland International Industrial Center (GIIC), Bekasi Regency, Greater Jakarta. Built with an investment of USD 1 billion, the JC3 campus is purpose-built for hyperscale and AI workloads, incorporating modular construction and advanced direct-to-chip cooling. […]
ByteDance first in Malaysia to ink Green Electricity Tariff (GET) deal with TNB
ByteDance last week signed an agreement with Tenaga Nasional Berhad, becoming the first subscriber and offtaker for the Green Electricity Tariff (GET) Greenpath Program, securing Malaysia Renewable Energy Certificates (mREC) through the Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation (PETRA) framework. Both parties stated in their respective social media posts that they are accelerating the […]
PDG debuts in South Korea with USD 700 million investment
Singapore-based developer and operator of data centers, Princeton Digital Group (PDG), today announced a US$ 700 million investment for its first multicampus facility in South Korea with a planned capacity of up to 500 MW. Construction of its first campus, its flagship 48 MW campus, PDG SE1, is slated to begin later this month and […]
Boom in Thailand’s data center sector thanks to BOI: Experts
Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) is instrumental in shaping the country’s current data center boom, the Thailand Cloud & Datacenter Convention – Global heard yesterday, as reported by Paul Mah, Executive Editor of w.media. “The Thailand data centre industry is booming, and credit must go to the influential BOI for opening the way,” Mah said […]
Bridge Data Centres inks 10-year water deal with Eastwater Stecon for its Thailand data center
Bain Capital-backed Bridge Data Centres (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (BDC) has last month signed a 10-year industrial water purchase agreement with Eastwater Stecon Utilities Co., Ltd. (EWS), to secure sustainable water supply for BDC’s upcoming hyperscale data centre campus in Chonburi Province beginning May 2026, BDC says in a statement recently. Under this agreement, EWS, a […]