data centre

Broker's Calls

Mapletree Industrial Trust strengthens hand with data centre venture

This follows a new joint venture between SPH and Keppel to invest in data centres.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.
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