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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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Editorial illustration of five Australian data-centre sites remaining connected during a transition to an independent operating platform

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jul 20, 2026
Workers install raised floors and overhead systems inside an unfinished data hall.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jul 18, 2026
A transparent conceptual data-centre massing hovers over an empty tropical parcel beside homes, survey markers and a utility corridor.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jul 18, 2026
Empty server racks and a power meter inside a data-centre hall, illustrating HeungKong's utilisation and fixed-cost risk in Ningxia.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jul 18, 2026
Aerial illustration of a large data centre campus in Sydney

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

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.

Jul 17, 2026
Construction professionals inspect a large data centre development site as TMX Transform launches TMX Edge to support data centre delivery projects across the Asia-Pacific region.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

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.

Jul 8, 2026
A modern AI data centre beside a hydropower dam in Bhutan, illustrating the country's renewable energy resources supporting AI infrastructure development.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jul 8, 2026
Digital illustration of AI data centres integrated with semiconductor, power and network infrastructure, representing South Korea's national AI infrastructure strategy.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

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.

Jul 7, 2026
Illustration of SK Telecom's planned AI data centre expansion in South Korea, representing national-scale AI infrastructure supported by power, GPUs and semiconductor ecosystems.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

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.

Jul 6, 2026
Conceptual illustration of a proposed off-grid AI data centre in Australia's Northern Territory, showing hyperscale data halls, solar generation, gas-fired power infrastructure and the surrounding outback landscape.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jul 2, 2026
Conceptual illustration of a hyperscale AI data centre campus in Batam, Indonesia, representing large-scale AI computing infrastructure supporting Southeast Asia's growing digital economy.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jul 2, 2026
Conceptual illustration of hollow-core fibre technology transmitting high-speed optical data between AI data centres, representing next-generation telecommunications infrastructure developed by Chinese researchers.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jul 2, 2026
Firmus and DayOne build Nvidia-backed Batam AI campus

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

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.

Jun 30, 2026
South Korea launches $576bn AI chip and data centre programme

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jun 30, 2026
Anthropic recruits APAC compute roles in Australia and Japan

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

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.

Jun 29, 2026
Green power reshapes China AI hubs

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

GDS Builds GW-Scale AI Cluster Powered by Green Energy in Ulanqab

GDS plans a GW-scale AI data center cluster in Ulanqab, as China's AI infrastructure cycle shifts toward green energy and high-density delivery.

Jun 22, 2026
CPPIB invests $742m in CtrlS data centres

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

CPPIB invests $742m in CtrlS data centres

CPPIB invests $742m in CtrlS, taking an 8.2% stake and backing a JV to build hyperscale data centres in India.

Jun 22, 2026
HKSTP and SenseTime build local AI data centre

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

HKSTP and SenseTime partner on Hong Kong AI data centre

HKSTP is a central Hong Kong technology ecosystem actor whose infrastructure and partnership decisions affect AI, data centre and enterprise technology adoption.

Jun 22, 2026
Data centre boom raises climate siting risk

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Climate risk in data centre siting threatens AI expansion

Australia is becoming a regional data centre growth market, driven by AI demand, land availability, renewable energy potential and grid rules shaping investment.

Jun 22, 2026
China Mobile boosts AI capacity with commercial three-band fibre

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

China Mobile boosts AI capacity with commercial three-band fibre

China Mobile opened a 35km Qingdao three-band fibre test bed to boost AI network capacity without laying new routes.

Jun 17, 2026