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Mapletree Industrial Trust strengthens hand with data centre venture
This follows a new joint venture between SPH and Keppel to invest in data centres.
July 02, 2020
Deals, joint ventures & alliances
SPH taps into lucrative data centre with Keppel Data Centres
Data centres are likely to become more lucrative as digitalisation accelerates.
June 29, 2020
M&A
ST Telemedia makes strategic investment to take controlling interest in 2nd Watch
SINGAPORE (Oct 10): Temasek-owned ST Telemedia (STT) has entered into a definitive agreement to make a strategic investment for a controlling interest in cloud service provider 2nd Watch.
October 10, 2019
Disruption and Digitalisation
Data is the new black gold
SINGAPORE (Sept 23): In a few fiery moments, the drone strikes on Saudi Aramco’s main facility at Abqaiq cut 5% off the global oil supply. Oil prices surged as much as 20% when the markets reopened as analysts scrambled to make sense of the impact. The
September 20, 2019
Tech
Princeton Digital acquires assets in China and Singapore as part of US$500 mil expansion plan
SINGAPORE (Sept 2): Singapore-based internet infrastructure company Princeton Digital Group (PDG) reported that it has acquired assets and land for data center development in China and Singapore as part of a US$500 million ($695 million) investment to fue
September 02, 2019
Online privacy
Protest data breaches threaten Hong Kong's hub ambitions
(July 29): Hong Kong’s ambitions to be an international data-centre hub are a potential casualty of the city’s mass protests.
July 29, 2019
Tech
GIC partners Polymer Connected to develop data centre campus in Jakarta
SINGAPORE (June 13): GIC, global long-term investor and manager of Singapore’s foreign reserves, and data centre provider Polymer Connected today announced a partnership to develop a data centre campus in Jakarta, Indonesia.
June 13, 2019
In print this week
AirTrunk raises $450 mil to fund largest 'neutral' data centre in Singapore
SINGAPORE (Apr 15): Data scientists are not the only ones in demand, data centres are too. On April 10, data centre specialist AirTrunk announced that it had raised $450 million in debt financing to expand across Asia-Pacific. For a start, the funds will
April 15, 2019
Tech
Facebook to build $1.4 billion data centre in Singapore
(SINGAPORE): Facebook is joining the likes of other technology giants to build data centres in Singapore.
September 06, 2018
Keppel DC REIT to build Sydney data centre in Macquarie Business Park
SINGAPORE (Aug 7): The manager of Keppel DC REIT (KDC REIT) intends to build a new shell and core data centre on vacant land within the Macquarie Business Park precinct in Sydney, Australia, as an expansion of the Macquarie Telecom data centre campus.
August 07, 2018