Hyperscale news stories

AirTrunk is planning to build TOK2, a new hyperscale data center in Japan which will strengthen the company’s presence in the country.

SpaceDC has partnered with Aofei Data International to sell Aofei's data centers, CDN and SDN in China.

The Singaporean moratorium on new data center projects was recently lifted, with one of the conditions being an increased focus on power efficiency and sustainability.

EdgeConnex has announced it is expanding its presence in Asia with the acquisition of GTN Data Center in Indonesia.

Accoding to Gartner, worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20.4% in 2022 to total US$494.7 billion.

Seagate and Phison have announced plans to expand their SSD portfolio to assist data center customers in reducing total cost ownership (TCO).

Johnson Controls has announced an industry-first hyperscale data center platform intended to assist cloud providers in meeting ambitious sustainability goals.

VAST Data has announced it has partnered with NVIDIA to build the foundation for AI superclusters, a next-gen storage platform called Ceres.

 Data center growth in the Asia Pacific market saw growth of 24% in 2021, according to a new report from DC Byte.

Internationally backed data company 'New Zealand Datagrid' is planning to build a carbon-neutral $1 billion hyperscale data centre in Makarewa near Invercargill.

Singapore-based Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has closed an equity investment from Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala) as a lead investor for US$350 million.

Gartner predicts hyperscalers’ carbon emissions will drive cloud purchase decisions by 2025.

Private equity and sovereign wealth investors are providing new impetus to hyperscale data centre investments, and have become key players in the introduction of new facilities and the acquisition of existing data centres.

Hperscale data centers operators in Southeast Asia deploying 4MW gensets can secure multiple operational benefits, while delivering reliable backup power on demand. 

Industrial infrastructure development firm LOGOS has partnered with Pure Data Centres (Pure DC) to expand its critical data center infrastructure portfolio across the Asia Pacific region.

Vantage Data Centers and its leading investor DigitalBridge Group Inc. have announced a completed acquisition of PCCW Ltd.'s data center business (PCCW DC). 

It aims to provide the economic benefits of cloud, along with those of Evergreen architecture including non-disruptive expansions and maintenance.

The 27-megawatt Inzai 3 data center is housed on a campus that includes two other hyperscale facilities.

Global Switch has added more expertise and experience to the company’s senior management team with two new appointments, and states that this will support the company’s growth strategy and global expansion.

The Uptime Institute has awarded the Tier III Certification of Design Documents to ST Telemedia (STT) Global Data Centres Thailand’s first hyperscale data center in Thailand.

The solution aims to replicate the on-premise experience through a global, hyperscale public cloud.

The company continues to push the boundaries of hardware-accelerated performance for security and networking convergence.

“Hyperscalers will require much higher power, exerting great pressure on systems. This will push for the adoption of a more standardized, prefabricated, and replicable architecture of future data centers.”

<span class="coloured">Jon McGettigan</span>, Fortinet A/NZ Regional Director, explains how consistent security services can protect and help manage distributed networks.