Data Centres

Sustainability 4 min Data Centres Hold a Third of the Dutch Grid Queue, Enough Capacity for 15 Million Homes Grid operators want the government to decide where data centres may go. The industry says early, oversized req... NA Nadia Rahim 17 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Malaysia Has Fast-Tracked 27 Data Centres Worth RM226 Billion. It Did Not Say How Much Power They Need Sixteen of the projects are in Johor. A parliamentary reply detailed 4,053 jobs and local content, while earli... SA Sarah Chew 15 Oct Business 4 min Princeton Digital Group Sells Five Indonesian Data Centres to Sinar Mas's SM+ PDG is keeping its 400 MW of hyperscale campuses near Jakarta and handing its older enterprise sites to a loca... EV Eva Chin 15 Oct ASEAN Tech 5 min Singapore Passes a Law Putting Its Biggest Data Centres and Cloud Providers Under Licence Facilities above 3MW must meet efficiency rules, and the largest face outage reporting and fines of up to 10%... DA Daniel Koh 12 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min West Java Stopped a Singapore Firm's AI Data Centre a Week After It Broke Ground BDx began building a 640 MW campus by the Jatiluhur reservoir without its environmental assessment or building... DA Daniel Koh 2 Oct AI & ML 4 min Alibaba Targets 20 Gigawatts of Data Centres by 2032 and a New AI Chip in 2027 The 20-gigawatt goal and the Zhenwu V900 chip, due in early 2027, came at Alibaba's Apsara Conference with pla... MA Maya Lin 28 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min Ho Chi Minh City Utility Warns Data Centres It May Cut Power in Tariff Dispute The dispute is over which electricity rate applies, and 11.35 billion dong is owed. The same week, a US-funded... SA Sarah Chew 27 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min The Philippines Gets Its First Big AI Cluster in 2027 The deployment takes Aolani past 48,000 accelerators and 100 megawatts. The split between the two countries, t... DA Daniel Koh 23 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min Data Centres Took 4% of Peninsular Malaysia's Power; Moody's Sees 31% by 2035 Meeting that needs 14 to 17 gigawatts of new capacity at up to RM95 billion, while 13 gigawatts of existing pl... SA Sarah Chew 18 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min Firmus Wants A$7bn on the ASX, With OpenAI as Its Anchor Tenant Seven claimed AI factories across Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, 900MW contracted, and a valuat... SA Sarah Chew 16 Sep Business 5 min The Pentagon May Lend $5bn for Data-Centre Parts, Not Data Centres The Office of Strategic Capital would be making its largest single loan, aimed at the component bottleneck rat... DA Daniel Koh 13 Sep Business 8 min The Philippines Plans 1.5 Gigawatts by 2033. It Has 50 Megawatts Now. A $34.4 billion masterplan, 61 per cent of it from private investors who have not committed. Next door, Laos a... DA Daniel Koh 12 Sep Sustainability 5 min Nvidia Signed Eight Australian Partners for 2GW. The Country Runs on 1.6. More than doubling a national computing load by 2027, spread across eight balance sheets. No site list, no pha... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Sep Finance 6 min Mistral Raised €3 Billion. The Gigawatt by 2030 Is Not Funded Yet. Mistral's Series D is led by Samsung at a valuation above €21 billion, nearly double last year's. The money is... SA Sarah Chew 9 Sep Business 6 min TCS Committed $7.4 Billion to a Hyderabad AI Campus. It Did Not Commit to a Gigawatt. HyperVault has the land, the money and a June 2028 inauguration date. It has not published a first-phase capac... DA Daniel Koh 7 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min A 450MW Batam Deal Is About Half the Island's Generating Capacity Firmus, Nvidia and DayOne plan 360MW and up to 170,000 accelerators at Kabil, on a 450MW supply agreement. Bat... DA Daniel Koh 4 Sep Business 6 min Equinix's Inference Exchange Arrives in Q1 2027, With No Price Attached Inference Exchange pairs Nvidia reference architectures with Together AI across Equinix data centres. No price... EV Eva Chin 4 Sep Sustainability 7 min Texas Froze a 474-Gigawatt Data-Centre Queue on a 91-Gigawatt Grid Abbott has halted new ERCOT interconnection agreements and ordered an audit of the queue. Three recent cases s... NA Nadia Rahim 3 Sep Sustainability 7 min Google Bought 396 Megawatts of Geothermal That Arrives in 2028 Cape Station in Utah comes online in 2028, with an option on 600 more megawatts through June 2030. Geothermal... NA Nadia Rahim 3 Sep Cloud & Infra 6 min Why AI Training Is Reviving Optical Circuit Switching Nvidia has now put US$6bn into photonics components and US$125m into a switching startup. It does not sell opt... KE Kenji Tanaka 3 Sep Sustainability 7 min Southeast Asia's First Data-Centre Protest Was About Dust, Not Water Nikkei reports data-centre opposition spreading across Asia. The region's first protest was in Johor in Februa... NA Nadia Rahim 2 Sep Cloud & Infra 6 min Tape Shipments Fell 9 Per Cent, Then Rose 57 Per Cent the Next Quarter LTO shipments fell to 160.3 exabytes in 2025 and Q1 2026 came in 57 per cent above the year before. Sony and F... KE Kenji Tanaka 2 Sep Sustainability 7 min Eight Data-Centre Turbines, 2.5 Million People and US$53m to US$99m a Year Data centres are installing on-site gas turbines to bypass multi-year grid connection queues. That makes the e... NA Nadia Rahim 1 Sep Cloud & Infra 6 min VMware's Answer to DRAM Prices Replaces Memory With a Drive That Wears Out Cold pages move from DRAM to NVMe rated at three drive writes per day. The saving is real, and it moves cost f... KE Kenji Tanaka 1 Sep