Show Notes
From massive renewable energy deals to Bond-villain-style underwater builds, here is everything you need to know this week! This Week’s Highlights: Amazon’s Massive Power Play (Australia): Amazon inks 9 PPAs for 430MW of renewable power (wind, solar, and battery). We debate the "additionality" effect on the green energy market.
The India Data Center Boom: AWS: Expanding in Navi Mumbai with a $430M facility to fuel cloud and AI compute.
PDG: Breaking ground on their massive 120MW MU2 Mumbai campus.
Iron Mountain: Topping out their new 23.2MW hyperscale facility in Chennai.
PI Data Centres: Developing a new 23MW facility in Mumbai (Phase 1 coming in 3 months!).
Major Moves in Malaysia: TM Nxera (Singtel & TM): Topping out phase one (64MW) of what will be a colossal 280MW campus in Johor.
Preva & Inspur Cloud: Teaming up for a 10MW scalable data center in Perak.
South Korea’s Underwater DC: Exploring the city of Ulsan's plans for a Carbon-Zero underwater data center that looks straight out of The Spy Who Loved Me.
GDS Goes Green (China): Putting the circular economy into practice by swapping out diesel for HVO (used cooking oil) backup power.
We’ll be traveling to several events soon—come say hi! DCD South Europe (Madrid)
Tech Capital's International Finance Forum (Presenting the APAC Award!)
DCD Bali
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