Show Notes
This week on Data Centre News Asia — 140MW of Nvidia Vera Rubin chips head to Japan, New Zealand lands its first major AI workload, and the deals keep coming across APAC.In this episode:- Macquarie Data Centres exercises its option on Talavera Road, Sydney — a 200MW campus for ~$170M USD, with a community garden, gallery & Macquarie University ties- Sharon AI (Neo Cloud) signs a $1.32B, 5-year compute contract — New Zealand's first significant AI workload, revenue starting Q1/Q2 2027- HCLTech invests $364M USD into a new 50MW India data centre business, building on its AMD alliance- STT inaugurates a 6MW facility in Jaipur — a sign of India's second-tier cities coming online- AWS lays the foundation stone for its self-build campus in Telangana's Bharat Future City, outside Hyderabad- Japan's Noetra teams with Nvidia for a 140MW build — 27,500 GPUs & 14,000 CPUs of Vera Rubin, tied to Japan's goal of 30% of the global AI robotics market by 2040- NTT breaks ground on Bangkok 4 in Chonburi — its first hyperscale/AI facility in Thailand, backed by a 100MW B.Grimm Power PPA- CapitaLand (CLAR) offloads the former Singtel facility for S$200M — double its 2005 purchase price- Polibeli, an Indonesian e-commerce player, signs MOUs for AI data centre projects in Thailand & Indonesia- GMI Cloud (Taiwan) seeks a $635M loan to scale up GPU capacityEnjoying the news? Follow along for weekly APAC data centre news.
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