Kuala Lumpur Data Center News

Bridge Data Centres develops its data center in MRANTI Park, Malaysia

Bridge Data Centres (BDC), a prominent provider of data center solutions in the Asia Pacific region, has announced plans to expand its hyperscale data center campus, MY03, in Kuala Lumpur's MRANTI Park. This expansion offers 48MW of IT power to Malaysian and Asia-Pacific hyperscalers and ente...

June 26, 2023

Bridge Data Centres

STT GDC establishes Jakarta data facility in Indonesia

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has officially inaugurated its first data center facility in Indonesia. The company revealed the launch of STT Jakarta 1 in Bekasi, west of Jakarta, one week ago. The first structure offers 19.5MW across 198,850 square feet. The completed campus will ...

June 26, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

STT Invests in AI Hosting company Firmus Technologies to Set the Pace in APAC

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), a data centre provider based in APAC, has invested in Firmus Technologies and plans to collaborate to introduce a GPU-focused Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) named Sustainable Metal Cloud (SMC). Set to debut in Singapore, this service is tailored ...

June 23, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Old Mutual announces closure of data centers and migrates to AWS

Old Mutual Limited has announced that it has closed all of its on-premise data centers and moved its entire IT infrastructure to AWS. The company shared that through this move, it has been able to reduce downtime by 50 per cent. According to Old Mutual, which has been a customer of AWS since 2...

June 22, 2023

Amazon AWS

Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County.The single-story building encompasses 1...

June 22, 2023

Equinix

ST Telemedia opens STT Jakarta 1 data center

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has announced the launch of its STT Jakarta 1. This facility is the first building to be completed at the company's data center campus, which is being developed with Triputra Group and global investment company Temasek via a JV. At full build-out, the campus w...

June 21, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Virginia's Reston data center is now owned by Edge Centres

Edge Centres has acquired a data center facility in Reston, Virginia. According to the company, the newly-acquired carrier hotel establishment, renamed EC104, features 1MW of scalability and 20 individual carriers. The data center is at 11513 Sunset Hills Road in Fairfax County, although the c...

June 21, 2023

Edge Centres

STT GDC Philippines will increase the capacity of three data centers

Globe Telecom announced on Tuesday that its joint venture with Ayala Corporation and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers would increase its capacity by 5.2MW by the end of the third quarter of this year. The expansion of ST Telemedia Global Data Centers Philippines (STT GDC Philip...

June 21, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

NextDC announces completion of S3 data center in Sydney, Australia

NextDC has announced that it has completed construction at its S3 data center in Sydney, Australia, following AU$1 billion (US$685m) of investment, two months ahead of schedule. Construction first began at the facility in March 2021, with the first phase completed last year, in August. The se...

June 20, 2023

NEXTDC

More data center proposals in Spotsylvania; AWS files for four rezoning requests for data centers

More data centers are set to arrive in Spotsylvania County, as applications continue to pile up. Amazon is one of the key drivers here, planning four new data center campuses in Virginia's Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, equating to more than 10 million square feet of development.Amazon ha...

June 13, 2023

Amazon AWS

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, wi...

June 12, 2023

Equinix

SES will offer satellite connectivity for the AWS modular data facility

SES released a satellite connectivity solution for Department of Defense (DoD) clients using the new modular data center product from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This week, SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned division of SES, announced that satellite-powered network connectivity is now avai...

June 12, 2023

Amazon AWS

AWS' data center chief Chris Vonderhaar makes abrupt departure

Chris Vonderhaar, head of data center design, planning, construction, and operation, has made an abrupt departure from AWS. This announcement comes as AWS continues to invest in its data center footprint, pegged to invest $35 billion alone on new data centers in Virginia by 2040.AWS has also a...

June 02, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland

Amazon has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Renantis for wind energy in Finland from its two Renantis' onshore wind farms when they're complete. The Mustalamminmäki and Koiramäki wind farms in Karstula, Central Finland, will have a combined cap...

June 02, 2023

Amazon AWS

Orion Data Centers Purchased by Edge Centre's Cybercon

Cybercon, which Australian data center operator Edge Centres currently owns, has acquired Missouri data center company, Orion Data Centers. Last week, the business disclosed that it had successfully acquired Orion, expanding its regional coverage to include a facility in Columbia. The agreemen...

June 02, 2023

Edge Centres

STT GDC Will Make a $242m Investment in a Pair of Data Centers in Pune, India

STT GDC is adding two new data centers to its Pune, India campus. The company intends to invest $241.9 million in the expansion, which will add 40MW to the campus' total capacity of 80MW across five buildings. The new data centers are anticipated to go live in phases over the next 12 to 24 mon...

June 01, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

Equinix has announced that it is opening its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai, which, at full build-out, will offer 1,800 cabinets of capacity across two phases or a total footprint of 12,000 square meters (135,000 square feet). The facility will support the co...

May 31, 2023

Equinix

Criticisms launched at Amazon's $1 billion subsidy in eastern Oregon

Amazon's contentious $1 billion subsidy in Oregon is coming under fire from critics. The massive break was given the go-ahead following a unanimous vote by Port of Morrow's five commissioners which enabled the giant to secure the enterprise zone incentives. Locals were given just one day's no...

May 30, 2023

Amazon AWS

AWS Secures Land for a new facility in Navi Mumbai

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be leasing land in Navi Mumbai, India, for a new data facility. The Hindustan Times reports that Amazon Data Services (an Indian subsidiary) has subleased a 451,000-square-foot site in the TTC industrial area in Bonsari, Airoli, for 15 years to construct a data c...

May 26, 2023

Amazon AWS

Amazon Plans Four Data Centers in Sterling, Virginia

Amazon will demolish several office buildings it purchased in Sterling, Virginia, in 2022 and rebuild those structures with four data centers. Amazon Data Services has submitted to Loudoun County proposals to tear down and replace nine office buildings in three sites in Sterling with four data...

May 23, 2023

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