Show Notes
A busy week across Asia-Pacific, with major developments in Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Indonesia.
𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: • KKR led consortium with Singtel to acquire the remaining 82% stake in STT GDC for $6.6 billion, representing an implied enterprise value of approximately $13.8 billion. • Oracle Database@AWS launches in the Sydney AWS Regions, enabling customers with data residency requirements in Australia to migrate Oracle Exadata and RAC applications to AWS. • SHARON AI to deploy a 1,000 unit B200 GPU cluster at NEXTDC M3 data centre in Melbourne using Lenovo infrastructure and VAST Data storage fabric. • Global managed hosting provider 20i launches a new data centre in Singapore housed in an Equinix Tier 3 facility, expanding its infrastructure footprint across Asia Pacific. • Zettabyte announces strategic investment from Headline Asia to support expansion in Japan, including customer development and partnerships across the country's telecom and data centre ecosystem. • Bharti Airtel breaks ground on a 5 MW data centre in Tripura, northeast India, marking expansion into underserved regions beyond the country's main metropolitan hubs. • JERA Co., Inc. announces collaboration with AWS to enhance digital innovation and energy solutions, including AI and cloud technologies for optimization and diverse energy solutions for AWS facilities including data centres globally. • NeutraDC signs strategic partnership MOU with Ishikari Renewable Energy Data Center No.1 in Hokkaido, Japan, aiming to connect Indonesia, Singapore and Ishikari through digital infrastructure and GPU as a Service offerings.
We examine what these moves signal for regional M&A activity, AI infrastructure deployment at scale, and the growing integration of renewable energy with data centre operations.
Topics: #APACDataCentres • #Investment • #Hyperscale • #Infrastructure • #AI
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