DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Southeast Asia, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Tencent Cloud plans cloud region in Malaysia
Will offer three availability zones
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Alibaba Cloud launches third data center in South Korea
Has been in the country since 2016
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CoreWeave plans to launch 360MW of data center capacity in Indonesia
Will be company's first data centers in Asia-Pacific region
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E-commerce platform Polibeli explores AI data center pivot
Signs MoU's for data center projects in Thailand and Indonesia
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Firmus to deploy 170,000 GPU cluster in Batam, Indonesia
Firmus signs agreement with Nvidia running through 2034
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Indonesian telco XLSMART migrates to Tencent Cloud
Migration relied heavily on AI technologies
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Gorilla Technology secures $2.5bn GPUaaS contract in Indonesia
Will see capacity deployed at NeutraDC Batam data center in Indonesia
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At Tokyo and Zadara launch sovereign cloud in Japan
Called Zadara Cloud At Tokyo Region
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SK Telecom plots "gigawatt scale" AI cloud in South Korea with Nvidia
Will be based on the Nvidia DSX platform
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Alibaba launches cloud region in Johor, Malaysia
Based out of two data centers
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Japan's Datasection to deploy 4,696 B200 GPUs in Thailand
Will be housed in a data center in Bangkok
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NHN launches 7,656-GPU cluster in Seoul, South Korea
Data center located in Yangpyeong-dong
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Microsoft commits to $5.5bn AI and cloud investment in Singapore by 2029
Cloud giant has had a region in Singapore since 2010
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Samsung Electronics leases capacity at Digital Realty data center in Seoul, South Korea
Samsung now a customer of the ICN10 facility
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Bridge Data Centres in talks for $6bn loan - report
Will be used to fund expansion in Thailand
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Radian Arc and Blacknut launch GPU cloud in Vietnam
Aims to support cloud gaming and AI services
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Google launches cloud region in Bangkok, Thailand
Company pledged $1bn investment in Thailand in 2024
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Malaysian fintech Instapay Technologies selects Alibaba Cloud infrastructure
Will use Alibaba's local cloud infrastructure to support its payment platform
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Vietnam's VNG merges AI infrastructure and cloud units under "GreenNode" brand
GreenNode will offer AI and cloud computing services
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Taiwan launches data center with AI cluster
Aims for facility to contribute to its "sovereign AI" effort
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GMI Cloud to establish $500m data center in Taiwan
Aims to be operational by March 2026
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Microsoft details plans for cloud region in Johor, Malaysia
Company launched first cloud region in Malaysia earlier this year
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Microsoft to launch new cloud regions in India and Taiwan in 2026; plans second Malaysia region
Despite continuing growth, capacity constraints likely to remain into 2026 in some locations
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Japan's University of Osaka D3 Center trials compute and data platform for open science
Osaka University Compute and sTOrage Platform Urging open Science developed by NEC Corp
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OpenAI considers data center in South Korea
Hints at plans during launch of South Korean office
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Microsoft scores $236.4m deal with Malaysian financial group Maybank
Contract spans five years
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![[Image 1] The B200 cluster 'Haein' installed at SK Broadband’s Gasan AIDC](https://media.datacenterdynamics.com/media/images/Image_1_The_B200_cluster_Haein_ins.2e16d0ba.fill-280x185.jpg)
SK Telecom launches GPUaaS based on Nvidia B200 cluster in South Korea
Offers access to cluster with more than 1,000 B200 GPUs
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GoTo Group migrates digital payments unit to Alibaba Cloud
Another part of the company's migration effort is complete