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Alibaba Cloud to Launch Second Data Center in South Korea
Alibaba Cloud has announced it will launch its second data centre in South Korea by the end of June 2025 in response to the growing demand for cloud computing and AI services from local businesses. The investment – made three years after the establishment of Alibaba Cloud’s first data centre in South Korea in 2022 – demonstrates its continued commitment to investing in South Korea, fostering...
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Achieves Over 78% Renewable Energy Usage
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has published its 2024 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report. The report details progress toward STT GDC’s ESG targets, as well as its three main ESG pillars – carbon-neutral data centre operations by 2030; a safe, secure, diverse and inclusive workplace; and ethical & responsible business. With the growing demand for digital infrastructure, sustain...
BDx Data Centers And Indonesia’s PLN Sign 30MVA PPA
BDx Indonesia, a subsidiary of BDx Data Centers (“BDx”) has signed a power purchase agreement with PT PLN, Indonesia’s national electric power distributor, to supply 30 MVA of electricity. BDx is a leading developer of AI-ready and sustainable digital infrastructure across Southeast Asia. The partnership with PLN delivers critical power capacity to BDx Indonesia’s growing d...
Pure Storage Launches Next-generation Storage Products
Pure Storage has announced an expansion of its next-generation storage products designed for the most demanding, high-performance workloads. “In an era where data is king and IT complexity remains a major hurdle to accessing and using data for optimal business value, Pure Storage is once again redefining what’s possible for customers. Pure Storage delivers the magic by rejecting the norms we...
Broadcom Launches VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud Application
Broadcom has announced the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, the platform for the modern private cloud. With VCF 9.0, customers gain a consistent operating model for the private cloud, spanning data centers, edge, and managed cloud infrastructure from service providers and hyperscalers. VCF 9.0 combines the agility and scalability of public cloud with the security, perform...
Damac’s EDGNEX To Build 2.3bln AI-Focused Data Center In Jakarta
EDGNEX Data Centers by DAMAC, backed by Dubai-headquartered DAMAC Group, has announced the development of a next-generation AI-powered data center in Jakarta, Indonesia, its second in the market. This milestone project marks one of Southeast Asia’s largest AI-dedicated developments, with a future projected capacity of 144 MW and a total investment of US$ 2.3 billion. Following the land acquisition...
Intel And Lenovo To Build HX2 Supercomputer At Imperial College London
Intel has announced plans for the new HX2 supercomputer at Imperial College London, built on Lenovo servers and powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores). The water-cooled system – designed as part of the co-investment ICICLE collaboration – will be deployed this year, delivering a performance uplift for the next generation of high performance computing (HPC) and artifici...
Vertiv Develops Energy-Efficient Cooling And Power Reference Architecture For NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Platform
Vertiv has announced their energy-efficient 142kW cooling and power reference architecture for the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 platform. In addition to fully integrated end-to-end cooling and power strategies for this next generation platform, the reference architecture unlocks a new era of infrastructure design by shifting from traditional buildouts. Vertiv solutions are available as SimReady 3D assets in...
Amazon To Invest $13bn In Data Centers In Australia
Amazon has announced plans to invest a new total of AU$20 billion from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate, and maintain its data center infrastructure in Australia. The country’s largest publicly-announced global technology investment will support the strong growth in customer demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), accelerating AI adoption and capability, and the continued moder...
Oracle To Deploy Cluster Of 130,000 AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs
Oracle and AMD have announced that AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to give customers more choice and more than 2X better price-performance for large-scale AI training and inference workloads compared to the previous generation. Oracle will offer zettascale AI clusters accelerated by the latest AMD Instinct processors with up to 131,072 MI355X GPUs to...
Hitachi Vantara Introduces EverFlex AI Data Hub As A Service
Hitachi Vantara has introduced Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service. The new AI Data Hub as a Service offering represents a fully managed, all-in-one infrastructure consumption service addressing AI data preparation challenges by providing a modern data lakehouse with integrated workbench capabilities for AI, business intelligence (BI), and data needs. Amid the boom of AI adoption, organizati...
NTT Data Joins Climate Pledge Initiative
NTT DATA has announced its commitment to The Climate Pledge, a groundbreaking initiative co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism in 2019. The pledge sets an ambitious target for companies to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, a full decade ahead of the Paris Agreement’s goal of 2050. More than 560 organizations have now signed The Climate Pledge, sending an important signal that there wil...