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2024.12.11

14:20

Alibaba Cloud to build new data centers in five countries

Alibaba Cloud will invest in new data centers in five countries around the world in the next three years, located in South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Mexico, Selina Yuan, President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International, revealed Wednesday.

2024.11.01

09:13

Thailand approves $2 billion in data center and electronics manufacturing investment projects

Asia Tech Wire (Nov 1) -- The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) announced on Friday the approval of new investment projects in electronics manufacturing and data centers worth a total of 66.9 billion baht ($2 billion).

2024.10.30

09:31

Data center startup Crusoe raising $500 million

Asia Tech Wire (Oct 30) -- U.S. data center startup Crusoe Energy is raising as much as $500 million from investors to expand its facilities providing infrastructure for the artificial intelligence boom, according to the Financial Times.

2024.07.15

03:50

South Korea's Hanwha Energy to build AI data center in Texas

Asia Tech Wire (July 15) -- Hanwha Energy, a key energy arm of South Korea's Hanwha Group, will build an artificial intelligence data center in the U.S. state of Texas.

2024.07.05

07:20

Thailand steps up efforts to attract investment in data centers

Asia Tech Wire (July 5) -- Thailand is increasing its efforts to attract investment in data centers.

2024.06.03

03:37

Sharp to partner with KDDI to transform plant slated for shutdown into AI data center

Asia Tech Wire (June 3) -- Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp will partner with Japanese telecom giant KDDI to transform a display manufacturing plant it plans to shut down into a joint venture AI data center.

2022.03.08

06:46

Microsoft to build fourth data center in India

Asian Tech Press (Mar. 8) -- Software giant Microsoft has announced that it will build its fourth data center in India's southern state of Telangana.

2021.11.16

10:10

Alibaba Cloud to add two new cloud data centers in South Korea and Thailand

Asian Tech Press (Nov 16) -- Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, will add two new cloud data centers in South Korea and Thailand, which will be officially opened within 2022 to provide localized digital technology services to local customers.

2021.11.15

06:36

IBM, Amazon team up to expand reach of data tools for oil companies

Asian Tech Press (Nov 15) -- International Business Machines (IBM) and Amazon Web Services, a unit of Amazon.com Inc, said on Monday they will collaborate to expand the reach of a range of tools used by oil companies to manage different types of data, Reuters reported.

2021.11.03

09:46

Microsoft to power Virginia-based data centers with renewable energy

Asian Tech Press (Nov 3) -- Microsoft Corp. will power its Virginia-based data centers entirely with renewable energy as it expands its clean energy procurement portfolio.

2021.10.26

07:43

Tesla opens Shanghai R&D and data centers

Asian Tech Press (OCT 26) -- Tesla China said on Oct. 26 that the Tesla Shanghai R&D Innovation Center and the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory Data Center have been completed and will be put into operation shortly.

2021.10.20

11:44

Alibaba Cloud to launch data centers in South Korea and Thailand

Asian Tech Press (Oct 20) -- Alibaba Cloud, a leading cloud service provider in Asia Pacific, announced Wednesday the opening of new data centers in South Korea and Thailand next year to further expand its business in Asia.

2021.06.18

06:11

Microsoft plans to add four new data centers in China by early 2022

2021.06.08

15:00

AliCloud adds two new data centers in Indonesia and the Philippines

AliCloud is increasing its presence in overseas markets by adding two new data centers in Indonesia and the Philippines. The company plans to invest more than 6 billion yuan in three years to expand infrastructure and support localized ecological development.

2021.06.03

03:43

Tencent Cloud launches four new international data centers in Bangkok, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Hong Kong

Today, Tencent Cloud officially launched four new international data centers in Bangkok (Thailand), Frankfurt (Germany), Tokyo (Japan), and Hong Kong (China) to provide cloud computing technology and industrial digitalization solutions to the public.

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