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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
AirTrunk’s 400MW-plus SYD3 has a builder for its next phase, not a live meter
Bouygues Construction’s €1.2bn contract for the next phase of AirTrunk’s SYD3 campus is a large, bounded construction event. Awarded through Australian subsidiary A W Edwards, it assigns work and a delivery horizon toward mid-2028. It does not establish the final cost of the…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
The Trans-Caspian cable has entered the seabed; it has not yet entered service
A specialised vessel has departed Baku and begun laying fibre toward Aktau, converting the Trans-Caspian project from stored equipment into a physical route across the Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan’s government says regulatory, organisational and customs obstacles were resolved, a…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Chinese localities expand data centres despite overbuild concerns
China’s local data-centre push is expanding into towns and counties, raising questions over whether new computing capacity will attract enough demand.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
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.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
KT’s fine is 225 times the theft the regulator could count
South Korea’s privacy regulator fined KT KRW53.979 billion after a rogue femtocell exposed identifiers belonging to 16,647 people and enabled about KRW240 million of unauthorised mobile payments. The arithmetic is striking: the fine is roughly 225 times the confirmed direct loss.…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Malaysia’s data-centre boom strains local resources
Malaysia’s data-centre buildout is increasing pressure on power, water and communities, particularly in Johor, the country’s main development hub.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
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.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
SEA-H2X enters commercial service as SHV-HK lands
SEA-H2X is now commercial, while SHV-HK has reached Hong Kong, adding one live route and another planned link across intra-Asia networks.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Australian states oppose data-centre power rules
Australia plans mandatory power, water and efficiency standards for large data centres, but two jurisdictions oppose part of the proposed national framework.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
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…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
KDDI’s Kumamoto relief is four different product interventions
KDDI and Okinawa Cellular will offer data support from 30 July to 31 August to customers tied to 21 Kumamoto municipalities. The headline number, 100GB, applies differently across brands: UQ users must claim it, povo1.0 users receive it, and povo2.0 users instead get five…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Japan’s regulator made KDDI’s mailbox breach a governance test
Japan’s communications ministry has issued KDDI written administrative guidance and a severe admonition after stolen credentials left about 7.62 million users’ mailbox contents viewable. The figure describes exposure, not proof that every mailbox was opened. The new event is the…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
XLSmart and ZTE widened the AI-network agenda before proving its economics
XLSmart and ZTE have signed a memorandum covering AI across radio, transport, core and operations, alongside wider 5G and fixed-wireless ambitions in Indonesia. The scope is strategically large, but the evidence is still narrow: a company-reported implementation saved more than…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Telstra put selected apps on satellite; scarcity still designs the service
Telstra has expanded its Starlink direct-to-device service from messaging to a curated set of navigation, weather, chat, light-social and fitness apps. The launch is not general mobile data: customers need eligible plans and phones, apps must be installed before leaving…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
KDDI activated emergency roaming in Kumamoto; availability was the first test
KDDI activated full-mode JAPAN Roaming in parts of Yatsushiro and Hitoyoshi after earthquake damage disrupted mobile service. The measure opened voice, emergency calling, SMS and data capped at 300kbps over another carrier’s 4G LTE network. It was a local activation, not…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
PTCL’s 62% growth headline measures a bigger perimeter, not a sudden telecom boom
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited reported a 62% increase in group revenue for the first half of 2026 after bringing Telenor Pakistan into its accounts. The cleaner operating comparison is smaller: standalone PTCL revenue rose 8%. A third number — more than 74 million…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SmarTone’s 3G consent starts a migration clock ending on 9 October
Hong Kong’s Communications Authority has consented to SmarTone ending 3G service on 9 October 2026. The affected share is described as very low, while more than 99% of Hong Kong mobile users already use 4G or 5G; neither statement removes the operator’s duty to support the…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
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…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Chunghwa will use submarine cables as an APN test bench, not a launch platform
Chunghwa Telecom, Fujitsu and 1Finity have agreed to a two-year programme to verify all-photonics networking on Chunghwa’s submarine-cable systems and study distributed data centres. The commitment creates a real test surface, but no equipment order, capacity figure, route…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
KDDI moved satellite-to-phone links into the drone control loop
A May flight in rural Ibaraki showed that a drone outside terrestrial mobile coverage could exchange commands and telemetry directly through au Starlink Direct. The experiment is narrow, but it changes the engineering question from whether a satellite link can reach a handset to…