Data centres

Trump summons Amazon, Google, Meta to sign power-cost pledge

Analysts say major tech firms behind the AI data centre boom are happy to pay more for the power they need

From left: Singtel Digital InfraCo CTO Manoj Prasanna Kumar, Digital InfraCo CEO Bill Chang, Senior Minister of State (Digital Development and Information) Tan Kiat How, and Nvidia solutions senior vice-president Marc Hamilton.

Singtel’s Digital InfraCo, Nvidia launch applied AI centre to power Singapore’s innovation capabilities

With the centre, large enterprises can get help in deploying AI solutions more quickly and cheaply, backed by Singtel and Nvidia’s resources

Tech companies are encountering a growing grassroots backlash with activist groups mobilising to fight the construction of energy-hungry data centres in some regions.

Trump seeks vows from tech executives to cover data centre costs

A number of jurisdictions have imposed restrictions on constructing new centres

John Stewart, chief executive officer of Digital Core Reit's manager, says Singapore and Japan are potential growth targets.
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Digital Core Reit pivots to ‘offensive’ strategy, targets doubling asset base in 3 years

Its manager looks to capital recycling and sponsor-backed deals to scale

This move is set to link sustainability performance with returns on cash balances.

StanChart Singapore rolls out first ESG-linked cash account for a local company

It integrates STT GDC’s key ESG performance indicators and sustainability performance targets to reward progress

DayOne closed a more than US$2 billion Series C funding round in January to support its international expansion.

GDS-backed DayOne to pick banks for US$5 billion US IPO, sources say

Bank of America and Citigroup are working on the deal, they add

The Johor facility will serve as DayOne's regional operations and capability-building base, designed to train more than 1,000 data-centre operations engineers.

DayOne sets up Johor training hub, expands KL shared services centre

The state, the company’s entry point into Malaysia, has since grown into its largest market in the Asia-Pacific

Johor has rejected up to 30% of new data-centre applications in 2025, industry guidance published this month indicated.

Johor data centres hit ‘time to power’ bottleneck

Approvals and grid delivery delays – not generation capacity – are determining which data centre projects move ahead on schedule 

Projesh Banerjea, managing director and part of the Apac infrastructure team at KKR, says digital infrastructure has singular capital needs, "both in terms of building assets and recycling of assets through buying stabilised assets".

‘No other sector like it’: KKR sees no let-up in AI-driven infrastructure boom after STT GDC deal

Deep pools of private capital are chasing data centres, one of Asia’s most capital-intensive asset classes

China’s leading AI developers are also investing heavily in AI infrastructure equipped with both Nvidia chips and domestically produced alternatives.

China’s top chipmaker SMIC warns rushed AI capacity could sit idle

AI-related infrastructure investment is projected to exceed US$3 trillion over the next five years