WEEK 27 · JULY 2026

APAC Data Centre Weekly

AI infrastructure is now a geopolitical race, with SEA and North Asia sprinting ahead at $152M and $576B investments respectively.

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Asia-Pacific GSMA roundtable calls for AI network upgrade

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South Korea Unveils 18.4-GW AI Data Center Expansion Plan

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South Korea announces $919bn investment into three “mega projects,” plans to build 18.4GW worth of data centers by 2035

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Supermicro's Taiwan office raided in ongoing Nvidia smuggling probe, more employees detained by prosecutors – report

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AirTrunk and ib vogt deliver Malaysia’s first data centre renewable VPPA

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Gigawatt-scale behind-the-meter data center campus proposed in Australia's Northern Territories

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Tata Communications Expands India-Singapore Subsea Capacity

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SUBCO Launches Australia’s SMAP Hypercable

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South Korea commits $576bn to AI chips and data centres in bid for global dominance

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Firmus to deploy 170,000 GPU cluster in Batam, Indonesia

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Ecolab completes USD $4.75 billion CoolIT takeover

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AI boom to leave data centre demand far above supply

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300MW data center campus proposed in Kent, UK

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Equinix-occupied data center in Manchester, UK, sold to a new landlord - report

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CPP Investments to pump $1.75 billion into EQT and EdgeConneX's AI data center build-out

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AWS injects AT&T into Interconnect connection cadre

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