Data centre supply in secondary cities has grown by over 300% in five years. Knight Frank, one of the largest independent global property advisors, has released the latest insights from its Q3 2022 Data Centre Report. The report focuses on nine rapidly emerging markets in Asia Pacific – Osaka, Melbourne, Jakarta, Manila, Hanoi, Taipei, Hyderabad, New […]
Accelerating its decarbonisation strategy, Volkswagen AG has set itself the ambitious goal to make its data centres net carbon-neutral by 2027. This would be three years earlier than foreseen in the European Green Deal, under which European data centre operators agreed to make their data centres climate-neutral by 2030. To achieve this goal, Volkswagen has […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to open an infrastructure region in Thailand. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) region will consist of three availability zones, adding to the existing 87 availability zones across 27 geographic regions. The upcoming AWS region in Thailand will enable developers, start-ups and enterprises, as well as government, education […]
FINTECH Circle, in partnership with Bulk Data Centers, has released a report that found that FinTech companies growing concerns about their environmental impact is a major factor in determining where to store their data. In a survey of senior executives in the FinTech and financial services sector, the report – The Data Usage Barometer – […]
BDx Indonesia, a joint venture company of Big Data Exchange (BDx), PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison) and PT Aplikanusa Lintasarta, has announced its plan to develop a new 100MW data centre campus on 12 acres of land acquired from PT Suryacipta Swadaya (Suryacipta), a member of Suryainternusa Group. The land is strategically located in […]
Global manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies Riello UPS is expanding with the launch of a new subsidiary covering the Republic of Ireland. Riello UPS Ireland is the Italian-headquartered company’s seventeenth dedicated worldwide branch and is a strategically important addition aimed at increasing the brand’s presence in the thriving Irish data centre market, where global tech […]
Asia-Pacific and Japan hyperscale data centre specialist, AirTrunk and Hong Kong’s major power utility, CLP Power Hong Kong Limited (CLP Power), have announced a renewable energy solution in Hong Kong that will match Microsoft’s data centre electricity consumption with local Renewable Energy certificates (RECs). Under the agreement, AirTrunk will source hourly RECs from CLP Power […]
Global colocation provider, Telehouse International Corporation of Europe, has announced the start of construction work for a second data centre at its TH3 Paris Magny campus in France. The construction of the new data centre is in line with Telehouse’s strategic plan to support European and national digital sovereignty by expanding its hosting and connectivity […]
Nokia has announced it is providing its 7250 IXR (interconnect router) platforms with 400G-enabled interfaces to Africa Data Centres, one of the continent’s largest providers of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities. The solution will enable Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, to offer cost-effective, high-capacity interconnection services […]
Teraco, one of Africa’s largest providers of interconnected data centre platforms, is now an integral connectivity and interconnection point for Google’s Equiano subsea cable. Equiano starts in Europe and runs along the West Coast of Africa, between Lisbon in Portugal and Cape Town in South Africa, with branching units along the way that can be […]
