AWS Glue 6.0 cuts prices 30% with Iceberg v3 support
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Jakarta property market strengthens across sectors
Stronger leasing and higher occupancy in Jakarta's offices, malls and warehouses signal a broad property recovery despite cautious pricing.
Malaysia poised to ride Southeast Asia property boom
Cross-border industrial links and data-centre investment could propel demand for Malaysian warehouses, offices and homes as regional growth shifts inland.
Equinix signs fourth Singapore renewable energy deal
Pressure is mounting on Singapore data centre operators to secure low-carbon power as Equinix adds another solar deal and lifts its local portfolio.
Singapore unveils first biological data centre prototype
A 20-unit system in Singapore is testing whether living neurons can ease data centre power strain while aiding AI and drug discovery.
Indonesia launches first university-based AI centre
The new hub aims to give researchers and students access to high-end computing for health, farming and disaster response projects.
Lam Research to add 200 jobs in Singapore this year
The hiring push will deepen Singapore's semiconductor skills base as demand for AI-related chipmaking and advanced packaging accelerates.
AI's future is being split between device and cloud
Rising AI usage is pushing firms to split tasks between devices and cloud services, cutting latency and easing privacy and cost pressures.
Editor Interviews
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Trane Technologies drives huge energy and cost saving
Data-centre operators face rising power bills as Trane's HFO shift and liquid-cooling push cut emissions and HVAC costs.
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Exabeam: Ruthless efficiency can make agentic AI malicious
Behavioural analytics is becoming essential as AI agents can pursue tasks so efficiently that they may cause damage without any malicious intent.
Tue, 9th Jun 2026
Quantum computers aren't here yet. But the data threat is
Hackers are already stockpiling encrypted data for Q-Day, when quantum machines could break RSA and ECC in minutes.
Tue, 9th Jun 2026
Marvell targets AI connectivity bottleneck with NVIDIA boost
AI data centres are hitting copper limits, pushing Marvell and Nvidia towards optics as clusters grow larger and more distributed.
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Southeast Asia and its energy investment bottleneck
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QiO pitches autonomous optimisation for industrial AI
The repositioning aims to win over energy-hungry manufacturers and data centres by promising real-time savings without replacing existing systems.
Vertiv launches 1.8MW UPS for AI data centres in Asia
AI data centres in Southeast Asia will get extra power protection as abrupt GPU load swings strain batteries and grid connections.
BrainChip links Akida processors with IBM Symphony
Enterprises could cut GPU use and power costs as the open-source bundle lets Akida neuromorphic chips share IBM's scheduler for inference tasks.
Cloudera adds GPU acceleration to Apache Spark 4.1 pipelines
The new feature could cut Spark job runtimes by up to 4x, easing cloud bills for firms running data-heavy AI and analytics workloads.
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Analyst Insights
Industry research and analysis from leading firms.
Hitachi Vantara posts 12% revenue growth on AI demand
Rising AI infrastructure spending lifted storage sales 45% at the Hitachi unit, helping offset complexity worries for corporate IT teams.
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Rising AI and cloud demand is set to push power spending toward USD $70.94 billion by 2034, as operators race to avoid outages.
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Pressure to modernise legacy systems is mounting as Kyndryl says most executives see AI adoption outpacing their firms' ability to adapt.
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Customers facing soaring AI compute demands will get access to one of the first cloud offerings of AMD's latest large-memory GPU and rackscale system.
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