Show Notes
August's Data Centre News Asia round-up:
- Alibaba Cloud opens a new availability zone in Seoul.
- Microsoft launches its latest region in Asia, India South Central.
- GDS Holdings raises its 2026 sales target to 1GW.
- Global Switch announces a new data centre development in Bangkok.
- New South Wales introduces updated guidelines for data centre developments.
- Firmus Technologies doubles its valuation to $10.5bn following an NVIDIA-backed raise.
- Sharon AI, Inc secures another $300m+ contract.
- GreenSquareDC announces a new Melbourne development.
- Centuria Capital Group and ResetData reveal plans to partner and develop 250MW of capacity in Australia.
- CoreWeave announces 360MW of data centre capacity in Indonesia. More from our podcast “In Conversation" on Data Centre News Asia coming soon!Keep an eye out for some exciting conversations with our upcoming guests:
Serene Nah (Managing Director of Digital Realty and Chairman at Digital Core REIT)
James Druce (Head of Research at CLSA)• Scott Bales (CCO of Data Centres at ESR Group)
Assaad Razzouk (CEO of Gurīn Energy)
Our latest episode features: Emmeline Tang, CEng (CTO of Digital Edge DC) and covers topics like building at hyperscale and the data centre boom.
We’re honoured to have them join us and can’t wait for you to hear their insights.
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