DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Southeast Asia, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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UAE's Mubadala considers investing in 500MW Bitgrit & S2 data center in Akita, Japan
Smaller 1.5MW deployment expected next year
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DayOne to expand CTP1 Thailand data center to 300MW, signs MoU with Amata for CTP2
Plans to take power from a floating solar plant
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Multiple subsea cables cut in the Red Sea, impacting Internet traffic in the Middle East and South Asia
Microsoft notes increased latency, but no major outages
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Oracle continues widespread layoffs across US, India, Philippines, and beyond
The company has yet to communicate the move internally or externally
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KKR considers acquiring ST Telemedia Global Data Centres at $5bn valuation
After picking up nearly 15 percent of the company last year
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OpenAI exec tours APAC for possible Stargate data center sites - report
Jason Kwon heads to Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, and Singapore
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Equinix's SG1 data center in Singapore hit by outage during maintenance
Impacting Singtel, StarHub, ViewQwest, and others
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Schneider Electric sees double digit data center growth, scores ByteDance as a customer
India becomes company's third-largest overall market
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Taiwan sends officials to Washington to try and head off US chip tariffs
With Trump threatening semiconductor tariffs of 100 percent
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Google plans $1bn Thailand data center investment
Cloud company will build in Bangkok and Chonburi
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STT GDC to pilot Phaidra's AI data center cooling control system
Hopes to achieve power savings of up to 30 percent
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Indosat's Lintasarta launches AI cloud 'GPU Merdeka' in Indonesia
Featuring Nvidia's H100 GPUs
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Lambda partners with SK Telecom for South Korean AI cloud services
Plans to offer GPUaaS from Gasan data center
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AI chip startups Sapeon Korea and Rebellions to merge
Well funded business plan to combine forces
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AMD to acquire hyperscale server maker ZT Systems for $4.9bn in AI push
But plans to spin off the manufacturing business later on
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Bangladeshi Internet blackout due to government orders, not data center fire - report
Ministers had blamed protesters for burning a facility to the ground
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Malaysian diesel prices soar as fuel subsidies eliminated
Country has become a data center hotspot after Singapore moratorium
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Japan’s ABCI-Q supercomputer to feature 2,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, research quantum computers
Using classical computing to help develop the next big thing
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Think tank warns North Korea could use public cloud providers to train military AI
But it's unclear where they are currently using compute resources
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Equinix blames Singapore outage on third party contractor
Major disruption brought down banking services
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Equinix data center outage causes banking issues across Singapore
Investigation underway into "technical issue" that raised temperatures
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CtrlS Datacenters to invest $2bn over 6 years expanding across Asia and Middle East
As well as continued build out in India
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SK Telecom invests $100m in generative AI startup Anthropic, will create LLM for telcos
Will share the large language model with the Global Telco AI Alliance
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Digital Realty's KIX13 Osaka data center certified as Nvidia DGX H100-ready
Japanese facility is Digital's first to get the certification
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Ex-Samsung exec charged with stealing entire plans for a chip fab to build Chinese clone
Made in China, designed in South Korea
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Nvidia plans Taipei-1 supercomputer, combining DGX H100 and OVX systems
Alongside Helion and Israel-1 supercomputers
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Mitsui & Co to deploy Nvidia supercomputer for generative AI drug discovery
Featuring 16 DGX H100 systems
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Fixed-line operator HGC offers to buy Hong Kong telco HKBN for $1bn - report
Local consolidation in land-constrained market