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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NTT Global Data Centers (Thailand) Limited: Reading Bangkok's Capacity Announcements Against the Evidence
Five sites, one 100-megawatt power contract, and two conflicting sets of capacity figures. The public record on NTT Global Data Centers (Thailand) Limited's expansion tells a clearer story about how datacenter growth gets announced than about how much capacity actually runs.
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SOS’s 500MW memorandum needs a 50MW closing table
SOS Limited has put 500MW of ambition, 180MW of tenant interest, at least 60MW of power effort and a 50MW first phase into one announcement. None of those figures has the same legal or operating status. The investable asset begins where the four numbers stop blending.
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Huawei brings NPO to 4,096-NPU Atlas 960E
Huawei says its Hi-ONE optical engines cut module count and interconnect power, but production reliability and repair procedures remain unproven outside vendor testing.
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Bitdeer secured A202’s 65.1MW facility before it secured the customer
Bitdeer’s ten-year Johor data-centre agreement converts a large block of future electrical capacity into a dated operating commitment. It does not yet convert that capacity into cloud revenue—a distinction that matters far more than the headline value of the company’s sales…
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Equinix’s CN1 plan changed from 850 to 800 first-phase cabinets
The Chennai facility’s 2025 opening disclosure carried a higher investment figure and lower cabinet totals than its 2024 plan. Those changes are measurable; the amount ready for a customer to use is a different question.
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Anthropic signs Queensland lease before approvals
Anthropic has committed to the first stage of Zerra DC's Western Downs campus while local planning and foreign-investment approvals remain outstanding.
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Sharp opens Japan AI-server orders with Foxconn backing
Sharp is pairing Foxconn's hardware supply with local sales and support as it prepares to deliver AI servers to Japanese organisations from fiscal 2027.
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Hitachi Systems, HPE target six-month data-centre delivery
Hitachi Systems and HPE are offering a container data-centre package that can be delivered in as little as six months for standard configurations.
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Hitachi, SPACECOOL test passive cooling
Hitachi and SPACECOOL are testing whether passive radiative cooling can protect exposed infrastructure equipment from heat without adding powered cooling.
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AirTrunk studies cryogenic data-centre cooling
The partners will study whether running computing hardware at cryogenic temperatures can improve performance without letting refrigeration erase the energy gains.
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SECI, HyperVault sign Hyderabad power MoU
The agreement covers renewable generation, land, and transmission for HyperVault's proposed campus, but does not yet set megawatts or an energisation date.
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Mumbai backs data centres, plans regulation
Mumbai's civic chief has backed data-centre development while signalling future regulation, leaving project-level rules and site conditions unresolved.
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NSW closes data-centre grid-cost consultation
NSW’s proposed grid rules could make data-centre developers put up more money before connection work begins.
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China Mobile launches hybrid-chip AI inference system
Mobile Cloud says its GPU-neuromorphic design cut operating costs by more than 40% in DeepSeek V4 Flash tests against comparable domestic GPU clusters.
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Firmus pitches A$7bn AI float to Asian investors
Firmus is courting investors for a proposed Australian listing while five of its seven AI computing sites remain under development.
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TECROWD's data-centre plan defers ¥550m until the sale
Fund 103 proposes no bank borrowing, yet ¥550m of construction cost would be paid from the eventual property sale before investor distributions. That payment order matters more than treating the advertised yield as a promise.
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NEXTDC's cash hedge does not cancel dilution
The data-centre developer is spending A$93.61 million on capped calls alongside its convertible notes. The protection is economic; the distinction matters for both construction cash and future ownership.
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Bangkok diesel case prompts data-centre permit review
Officials found more than 200,000 litres of unlicensed diesel at a Bangkok data centre, bringing backup power, drainage and urban siting under closer review.
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GMO picks Ishikari for GPU cloud expansion
GMO Internet has chosen Ishikari Bay New Port for a new GPU cloud site, where power, network access and other infrastructure are still being worked out.
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China ties computing growth to power and fibre
China is tying computing expansion to power and fibre planning, making coordinated delivery central to new projects.