Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Datacenter trend intelligence tracks data centre market trends, AI-driven capacity demand, power availability, colocation growth, interconnection strategy, and regional campus investment in Asia-Pacific, giving readers a fuller view of the demand shifts, capacity constraints, platform strategies, capital timing, regulatory pressure, and operating assumptions behind the market.
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India data-centre capacity forecast to reach 12GW by 2030
Wood Mackenzie expects India’s data-centre capacity to reach 12GW by 2030, with power and water availability shaping where projects are delivered.
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India projects 26.3GW AI data-centre load by 2032
India has nearly doubled its estimate of the electricity demand expected from AI data centres by 2031–32, expanding the transmission, balancing and siting task facing power authorities.
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AirTrunk’s $2.325bn loan funds a build, not a finished 270MW campus
AirTrunk has closed US$2.325 billion of green financing for JHB2 in Johor Bahru, turning a loan that was being marketed in May into committed project funding. The 30-institution syndicate is substantial, but it proves neither that the scalable 270MW campus is complete nor that…
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S7's cooling redesign moves a water constraint into the power budget
NEXTDC's planned 612MW S7 data centre in Western Sydney has dropped a recycled-water cooling proposal because the required pipeline lacked infrastructure and planning permission. The replacement—liquid cooling at the chip with waterless fan-based heat rejection—reduces dependence…
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NEXTDC's sales ledger is 740MW; its billing floor is still 175MW
NEXTDC added 73MW of customer contracts and lifted pro forma contracted utilisation to 740MW. The demand signal is substantial, but the operating state is not: 565MW sits in the forward order book while 175MW was billing at 30 June. Sales uncertainty has fallen, and the burden of…
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Fujitsu’s five-centre sale makes continuity the first asset to transfer
Next Capital is buying an operating Australian data-centre platform, not five empty buildings. Contracts and staff are meant to move with it after completion, while Fujitsu keeps the business running and redirects investment toward higher-layer technology services.
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NTT's Bangkok fit-out award shifts spending into data halls
Leighton Asia will install the internal systems that make an NTT data-centre campus usable, providing a firmer demand signal than a development plan while leaving the project's size and schedule largely undisclosed.
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Kota Damansara data-centre dispute is headed to Malaysia's Cabinet
The announced escalation does not cancel the proposal, but it turns a local planning objection into a test of whether Malaysia's data-centre screening should cover neighbourhood siting as explicitly as power and water.
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HeungKong's 27MW data-centre bet starts with an empty order book
A five-year RMB795.6 million capacity plan in Ningxia puts recurring costs ahead of customer demand at a company already contending with falling revenue and continuing losses.
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Macquarie acquires site in Sydney for 200MW data centre campus
Macquarie developed its campus plan in Sydney, but the size and timing of each construction stage have not yet been determined.
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TMX launches TMX Edge consultancy for APAC data centres
TMX Edge has launched to address a growing gap between data centre investment and the industry's ability to deliver projects across Asia-Pacific.
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Sato plans AI data centre in Bhutan
Sato's planned AI data centre highlights how access to renewable power is becoming a competitive advantage for countries seeking to attract AI infrastructure.
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SK Group unveils 15GW AI data centre plan for South Korea
SK Telecom's investment suggests countries are increasingly competing through AI infrastructure rather than technology development alone.
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AI Data Centres Become National Infrastructure
SK Telecom's AI data centre programme shows how national infrastructure is becoming a critical foundation for AI competitiveness.
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Remote NT Cattle Station Tests Off-grid AI Infrastructure
A proposed hyperscale AI campus in remote northern Australia highlights a growing industry trend: as established data centre markets run into power constraints, developers are increasingly taking compute to energy rather than energy to compute.
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Batam AI Campus Extends Singapore's Reach
DayOne, Firmus and Nvidia plan a 360MW AI campus in Batam, highlighting how Southeast Asia's AI infrastructure is extending beyond Singapore to markets with greater power, land and room for expansion.
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Chinese Researchers Push Fibre Towards the AI Era
A record-breaking hollow-core fibre trial in China marks more than a networking milestone. It signals that future AI competitiveness may depend as much on moving data efficiently as on building larger GPU clusters.
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Firmus and DayOne build Nvidia-backed Batam AI campus
Firmus Technologies and DayOne are developing a 360MW Nvidia DSX AI Factory campus in Batam, Indonesia, under an eight-year partnership with Nvidia, targeting AI-native multi-tenant workloads and large-scale GPU deployment.
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South Korea launches $576bn AI chip and data centre programme
South Korea has unveiled a $576bn national initiative to expand semiconductor manufacturing and AI infrastructure, integrating chip production and data centre buildout into a unified long-term industrial strategy led by government and major chaebol groups.
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Anthropic recruits APAC compute roles in Australia and Japan
Anthropic's compute hiring in Australia and Japan shows how AI infrastructure expansion is moving from model demand into power access, site sourcing and secure regional capacity.