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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Bridge Data Centres launches PowerCore 5.0 power module
Bridge Data Centres launched PowerCore 5.0, a prefabricated power module that moves assembly and testing off-site for high-density AI facilities.
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SKY47 and ZTE launch 8.5MW Islamabad data centre
Karakoram-01 has launched with 8.5MW of stated total power, but available IT capacity and customer deployments have not been disclosed.
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CDC files for 144MW Kemps Creek data centre
CDC's 144MW KC1 proposal has entered New South Wales' planning process, but construction and power-delivery dates have not been disclosed.
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Firmus’s $2bn commitment buys an execution runway, not live AI capacity
Firmus has received full commitments for a USD2 billion equity round at a post-money valuation above USD10.5 billion. That is a powerful financing signal for an Australian AI-infrastructure platform, but its value lies in what happens after subscription: closing, cash receipt…
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GreenSquare plans 240MW Melbourne data centre
GreenSquare plans a 240MW campus in Spotswood with a 220kV power design, while planning approval and grid capacity remain central to delivery.
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SK Telecom AIDC revenue nearly doubles in Q2
SK Telecom’s AIDC revenue reached KRW136.2bn in Q2, while SK Hyper must secure sites, build substations and acquire customers for 5GW from 2029.
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Microsoft opens fourth India cloud region in Hyderabad
Hyderabad gives Azure customers another Indian region for running workloads and disaster recovery, although Microsoft says more services will be added over time.
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Furukawa’s profit surge reaches the component layer, but its capex plan did not accelerate
Furukawa Electric’s first-quarter results show that data-centre demand is no longer confined to cloud operators and construction contractors: it is reaching optical connectors, specialist fibre, cooling modules and other components. The company lifted its full-year…
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DXN wins AU$1.2m Solomon Islands landing-station contract
DXN will deliver a modular landing station by April 2027 for the planned ACS-1 cable, but the wider system is not yet operational.
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Visionbay.ai launches 5MW Nvidia AI cluster in Taiwan
Foxconn says the cluster is commercially available and more than 90% utilised, but has not explained how that figure is calculated.
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LG Uplus adds $896m to Paju AI data centre
LG Uplus is adding fresh capital to its Paju project as construction advances on the first building of the planned 200MW campus.
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SoftBank unit's Southeast Asia AI data-centre pact allocates roles, not capital
SB Telecom Singapore, SC ZEUS Data Centers and Robust HPC Group have divided the work needed to pursue AI data centres across Southeast Asia. The memorandum creates a development chain, but names no site, megawatts, power supply, customer, capital budget or delivery date.
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Mitsubishi's August target does not yet restore its quake-hit chip output
Mitsubishi Electric says two semiconductor factories halted after the Kumamoto earthquake should move back to normal operations during August. The timetable narrows the disruption, but it does not disclose current output, lost production or when customers will again receive…
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LG Uplus has funded a 200MW destination, not switched it on
LG’s additional KRW1.3tn commitment changes the financial scale of the Paju AI data-centre project. It does not change the physical state of the campus overnight. LG Uplus said in June that construction was about 20% complete and that a 200MW power supply had been secured; the…
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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…
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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…