With Vietnam’s rules on storing data locally causing a surge in demand, local data centre operators are apparently unable to cope. Thus Vietnam has decided that foreign investors can now own data centres in the country.
Data centre provider Princeton Digital Group (PDG), a major player in the Asian market, says it has acquired powered land for 500MW capacity expansion in key markets across Asia.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will invest US $3 billion in India in cloud and AI infrastructure over the next two years, including new data centres and skills development, as part of a broad initiative to develop the country’s AI ecosystem.
UAE-based Edgnex Data Centres by DAMAC announced on Tuesday it has started construction an AI data centre in Indonesia with a designed IT load capacity of 144MW and a price tag of US$2.3 billion.