The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - Asia Pacific
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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SoftBank to commercialize aerial cell towers with Japanese fleet
Sceye deal brings HAPS from prototypes to happening
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Google commits to $15bn investment in Malaysian data centers
Investments will occur during 2027 and 2028
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Digital Realty and Goodman Group line up AU$715m bid for stake in Australia's NextDC
Aussie operator's ailing finances could be boosted by rivals
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Indus Towers installs solar systems across 50,000 telco sites in India
Intends to expand deployments to 100,000 sites by 2029
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Bridge DC appoints Drew Chen as co-CEO
Chen to work alongside existing CEO Eric Fan
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NTT Data opens JKT2A data center in Indonesia
Facility is designed for AI workloads
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Samsung SDS breaks ground on Gumi AI Data Center in South Korea
Will eventually offer 120MW
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Foxconn details quantum ambitions, wants to become world’s “largest quantum computer manufacturer”
However, technology not expected to be viable for at least two years, company said
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Anthropic signs lease with Australian Data Centres in Western Downs, Queensland
ADC is 85 percent owned by Dexus
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Korea Telecom to halt sale of new 3G plans
As the carrier prepares migration away from legacy network
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with Samsung execs as memory chip shortage deepens
Follows comments made by Altman on a podcast about underutilization of DRAM in desktop computers
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FuriosaAI raises $620m at a post-money valuation of approximately $2.9bn
South Korean chip startup said funds will help accelerate development of its third-generation AI inference chip
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Google commits $160m to develop water treatment plant for planned data center in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Will also serve the local community
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Modular data center provider DXN loses neocloud customer contract
Customer cancels deal after shift in business, company still paid for work completed
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DayOne signs MoU with Sembcorp to integrate power and energy solutions across APAC data centers
Part of the company’s Bring Your Own Power initiative
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DayOne inks MoU with Blue Whale Energy to explore feasibility of a distributed virtual power plant in Singapore
Would support DayOne's SG1 data center
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India's L&T breaks ground on second Chennai data center
52MW facility to support firm's cloud unit, Vyoma
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South Korea's Hyundai to develop data center in Saemangeum, offer GPU services
Company developing facility at energy and robotics megaproject campus
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OneQode leases 14MW from AdaniConneX in India
AI cloud company's first deployment in India, more planned
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Quantum DC cancels Australian data center community meeting over "credible bomb threat"
The proposed gigawatt-scale site has seen local pushback
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Conglomerate Chatterjee Group launches Cortex DC, targets 2GW of data center capacity in India
Few details about rollout shared
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NTT expands AI data center footprint with Paris and Singapore deployments
Brings company’s AI factory total to four sites across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East
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Naver closes $10bn investment from Brookfield and Nvidia
Money to fund the build-out of data centers and GPU purchases
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Malaysian gov’t approves renewable energy requirement for new data centers
Data centers will have to source a minimum of 30 percent of their power from renewable energy
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Tata Communications to invest $450m into 10,000km of AI-ready fiber to support data center connectivity in India
The route aims to support India's growing data center industry
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Former New Zealand pulp mill eyed for storage-focused data center
Data Igloo wants to develop a data center in Ruapehu
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Gigawatt-scale off-grid data center campus proposed in Western Australia
Project pivots from green hydrogen and ammonia to data centers
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Microsoft signs two PPAs with Macquarie-backed Blueleaf Energy in Japan
Blueleaf has a portfolio of around 1.2GW of solar projects in the Japanese market