DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Asia Pacific
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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SoftBank eyes possible AI data center project in Borneo
Company partners with tech company Grab and a government-owned oil and gas firm
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Princeton Digital Group sells five data centers in Indonesia to SM+
APAC operator divests legacy XL Axiata facilities to Sinar Mas subsidiary
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Photonic quantum startup Quanfluence raises $10m for full-stack architecture development
Bengaluru-based company is designing and developing its own photonic quantum hardware
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Digital Realty begins work on KIX15 data center in Japan
New building on Osaka campus adds 24MW
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Bitdeer AI signs 67MW AI cloud agreement in Malaysia
10-year lease will be engineered for GB300 NVL72 deployments
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Neocloud Firmus cancels IPO, blames market volatility
Firm had reduced initial share price due to weak demand
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KT Cloud plans 50MW data center project in Incheon, South Korea
KT Cloud will serve as the design, build, and operate partner
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India dismisses Elon Musk claims over satellite approval process in country
It comes after Musk had earlier said Starlink had been "blocked by certain oligarchs" in the market
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AirTrunk plans additional $1bn investment in data center campus in Inzai, Japan
Company plans to triple overall investment in country to $30bn
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Firmus drops IPO share price amid weak demand - report
Neocloud not attracting as much interest as it had hoped
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CoreWeave teams up with AdaniConneX for AI cloud region in India
Company will lease 240MW of capacity in Navi Mumbai
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Telstra expands Aura Network with launch of Perth-Sydney route
As Telstra continues to build out its planned 14,000km fiber network
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Firmus tops out data center building in Tasmania
Indonesia site ready to start deploying HyperCube systems
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Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to establish CORE initiative to support semiconductor design and manufacturing
First phase will see launch of Design Solution Associates project
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DayOne IPO: Data center firm targets 2.3GW capacity by 2028
Revenue is ramping up, but so are losses
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Quantinuum partners with University of Western Australia to expand quantum computing access
University researchers will be able to access Helios quantum computer via the cloud
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Malaysia's DNB secures $1.27bn in funding for next phase of 5G rollout
Comes shortly after the DNB activated more spectrum to expand 5G footprint
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Firmus and CDC end 1.6GW Project Southgate collaboration, deploy just 42MW
Due to Firmus' expansion in Asia raising questions about funding
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Jera, Dell Technologies, and Rhaelm team up for behind-the-meter AI infrastructure in Japan
First project planned for power plant at Chiba
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Zella DC launches stackable micro data center boxes
Company makes its micro DC offering even smaller
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Australian telcos activate temporary disaster roaming agreement
The service went live today and will enable customers to switch to alternative carrier during severe weather events
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GMI Cloud raises $668m in funding
Combination of equity and credit facility
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Tencent signs on for 100,000 GPUs via Oracle - report
Will give Chinese cloud provider access to GPUs not allowed in the Middle Kingdom
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Custom chip firm Semifive signs $52m deal with unnamed US AI company
Accelerator will be targeted at hyperscalers and CSPs once production begins in 2028
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ZutaCore partners with Options Technology to offer liquid cooling to financial services
Options to offer liquid cooling to its customers across its 40 data center deployments
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Fire at data center in Seoul, South Korea, sees 100 people evacuated
Blaze thought to have started in UPS room of STTGDC facility
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Australia's CDC plans gigawatt-scale data center campus in Wagga Wagga
Company files for four-building campus well outside usual NSW hubs of Sydney and Canberra
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Meta signs on to use AI capacity at Firmus' Southeast Asia data centers
Builds on existing agreements in Australia