Cloudera adds GPU acceleration to Apache Spark 4.1 pipelines
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Asian stories
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.
Mon, 15th Jun 2026
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.
Wed, 3rd Jun 2026
Expert Opinions
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Southeast Asia and its energy investment bottleneck
The region's clean power shift is being slowed less by missing kit than by financing and operational hurdles that stall adoption at scale.
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More isn't always better: Rethinking memory choices for modern workloads
Rising memory prices are forcing data-centre operators to size servers by workload, not total capacity, to avoid wasting budget and bandwidth.
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Allegro partners with Jena Batteries on flow rollout
Pilot flow battery systems are set for Australia as Allegro gains manufacturing scale for long-duration storage demanded by grids and data centres.
Cloudera launches hybrid AI platform at Singapore event
Asia Pacific firms are reworking data systems to meet AI rules, as Cloudera unveils a hybrid platform aimed at keeping data in place.
Cloudera survey finds AI projects stalled by governance
Most enterprises are overhauling data systems as 95% say governance and infrastructure hurdles have delayed or cancelled AI projects.
AI buildout drives USD $120 billion data centre surge
Delivery bottlenecks, rather than demand, are now the main risk as AI-fuelled data centre expansion pushes revenue to USD $120 billion by 2030.
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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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Data centre power market set to hit USD $70.94bn by 2034
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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Kyndryl launches agentic modernisation service platform
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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Vultr adds AMD MI455X GPU & Helios rackscale support
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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