Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), a leading provider of global hyperscale and large enterprise data centre solutions, has announced that it has secured 10 new parcels of land across Europe and APAC for the development of greenfield hyperscale data centres. These include sites in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Japan.   The new sites see the capacity of Colt DCS’ portfolio increase dramatically by over 500MVA of secured power to support the development […]

Digital Edge has announced the acquisition of five data centre assets from Itochu Techno-Solutions (CTC) for a total purchase price of approximately US$230 million (JPY26 billion), representing Digital Edge’s largest single investment in Japan to-date. Through this transaction, Digital Edge has added a further 5,000 cabinets and 18.5MW of capacity to its Japan platform, bringing […]

AtlasEdge, a pan-European edge data centre provider, has announced the successful acquisition of 12 data centres. The deal is with Colt DCS, a world-class provider of hyperscale data centres across Europe and APAC. The successful acquisition from Colt strengthens AtlasEdge’s unique portfolio of distributed data centres that are positioned to support localised or low latency […]

Digital Edge, a data centre platform backed by Stonepeak, has announced the ready-for-service (RFS) date for the initial launch of its first self-build data centre in Osaka Japan. The new data centre (OSA1), located in the Osaka Central Business District, will become fully operational on January 4, 2022. Construction started in April 2021 and is […]

Colt Technology Services, a leading global provider of agile, high bandwidth connectivity solutions, has announced the availability of its new 400GE Wave and Private Wave services, making it the first telco to offer the technology in Hong Kong and Singapore. Based on Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optical technology, the 400GE service builds upon […]

Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, has introduced the Vertiv Liebert DM – its latest line of thermal management solutions designed for small and medium-sized computer rooms, IT closets and other edge applications. With capacity ranges from 7kW to 27kW, the Liebert DM is now available across Southeast Asia, Australia […]

In 2020, the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced its draft Data Centre Policy, designed to make the country more attractive for domestic and foreign investment into the data centre sector. In this article, Ed Cooke, Founder at Conexus Law, shares some of his experiences of working on Indian projects including some of […]

Sify Technologies, India’s most comprehensive ICT solutions provider has announced that its data centre at Vashi, the first commercial data centre in India, has completed 21 years of uninterrupted operations. Sify Technologies expanded into the data centre business in the year 2000. Sify has built and today operates 10 carrier-neutral data centres, currently offering more […]

Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced its expansion into the Asia-Pacific market through two acquisitions. DigitalBridge Investment Management, the company’s major stakeholder, along with participation from other existing Vantage investors, contributed an additional US$1.5 billion in equity capital. Following the closing of both transactions, Vantage will offer […]

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced plans for a greenfield development in Jakarta, Indonesia, as part of its plan to expand its footprint to serve its customers’ needs in the booming Indonesian digital economy. The new 22MW data centre, to be named Jakarta Cibitung 2 (JC2), is being built within the same 19,550m2 campus that […]