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Keppel signs conditional offtake agreement with Woodside

Keppel Data Centers has signed a conditional offtake term sheet to supply and purchase liquid hydrogen from Woodside. The company plans to integrate the potential liquid hydrogen supply into a broader, long-term portfolio of low-carbon power solutions that it is developing to meet the energy n...

October 23, 2024

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Engineering Firm Woolpert acquires Greenbox Architecture

Engineering and architecture consulting firm Woolpert has acquired Greenbox Architecture. The Sydney-based architectural firm has specialized in data center, commercial, and residential architecture in the APAC region since 2009.“By joining a tech-driven company like Woolpert, we will be able ...

October 10, 2024

Sydney

Data center fire in Singapore impacts Alibaba Cloud services

A data center fire incident in Singapore has caused issues to Alibaba's cloud services. The company said it occurred in Availability Zone C of its Singapore region."At 10:20 on September 10, 2024 Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected network access anomalies in availability zone C of...

September 12, 2024

Singapore

PDG acquires new data center in Singapore

Princeton Digital Group this week announced the acquisition of Yahoo’s Singapore data center, SG3 which offers 5MW across 5,400 sqm (58,125 sq ft). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure at the facility. Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-fo...

August 14, 2024

Singapore

Atturra expands sovereign cloud in NextDC Sydney data center

Australian advisory and IT solutions provider Atturra is expanding its sovereign cloud capacity with a new deployment in NextDC's S3 data center in Sydney, helping the company to meet growing demand from clients for cloud computing and storage capacity. The solutions provider will commence it...

August 05, 2024

Sydney

Quantinuum signs MoU in Singapore for city-state’s quantum sector

Quantinuum has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with several Singaporean institutions to provide the city-state with access to it's H-Series and Helios quantum computers and collaborate on quantum computing use cases. Other signatories of the MoU include Singapore’s National Quantum Offic...

July 25, 2024

Singapore

Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI

Fintech executives are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing banks' reliance on the big US tech firms. At a gathering in Amsterdam last week, some executives suggested that the sector will increasingly have to turn to the likes of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web...

June 12, 2024

Amsterdam

Viasat launches new headquarters in London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for t...

April 15, 2024

London

Alibaba extends cloud price cut to international customers

Alibaba has revealed that it is now slashing its prices by as much as 59 percent for customers "from the US to Singapore." This comes shortly after the company's March 2024 announcement that it would be cutting cloud costs for its Chinese customers by up to 55 percent with the hope of winnin...

April 09, 2024

Singapore

Asia-Pacific plans new data center acquisitions

Singaporean real-estate firm Asia-Pacific Strategic Investments Limited (APS) this week announced plans to acquire a 100 percent stake in Taiwanese sustainable data solutions provider, Mobii Genius Co., Ltd., for US$150 million. “Creating green data processing and storage facilities is of par...

April 08, 2024

Singapore

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to inc...

March 29, 2024

London

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

March 15, 2024

Sydney

Keppel plans expansion into Japan

Keppel is expanding into Japan with plans to build and buy facilities in the country. In this regard, the company has siged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. (Mitsui Fudosan) to ‘jointly explore data center development and investment opportunities’ in Japan and ...

March 14, 2024

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WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

March 12, 2024

Sydney

Telkom Indonesia consolidates Singapore data centers

Telkom Indonesia has consolidated its Singapore data centers under one umbrella unit ahead of a potential sale. The company wrote on LinkedIn that this marks a “significant milestone in our journey toward becoming a regional powerhouse in the data center industry,” “The rationale behind this ...

March 05, 2024

Singapore

Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said stron...

February 29, 2024

London

Empyrion DC secures S$133 million green loan

Empyrion DC, a Singapore-based data center operator, has secured a green loan worth S$133 million (US$98 million) to refinance its SG1 Dodid data center in Singapore, with proceeds used to “support existing operations” at the 12.5MW facility. This financing was provided by the UOB bank. Mark ...

February 27, 2024

Singapore

Mavin to install Powercube data center in South Wales

Mavin, a UK-based IT services firm has announced it will install a Powercube data center at the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GRCE) in Onllwyn, South Wales. “We are delighted to agree this partnership with Mavin and to utilize their cutting-edge Powercube design at the Global Centre of Rai...

February 23, 2024

Wales

Diraq secures $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round

Quantum computing startup Diraq has raised $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round led by specialist investor Quantonation, a venture capital fund dedicated to quantum technologies, with participation from Higgins Family Investments and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. This latest ...

February 14, 2024

Sydney

Singapore-based startup receives $12.5 million in funding for electricity transformers

Singapore-based startup Amperesand, which makes SSTs that could replace standard transformers in electricity distribution, has been given $12.5 million in funding to develop solid-state transformers (SSTs), which could make electricity grids more efficient and flexible. "We are thrilled to par...

February 09, 2024

Singapore

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