Infrastructure
Hot Chips, Cool Solutions: Asia’s Race to Reinvent Data Center Cooling
Editor’s Note: In August, we asked if Southeast Asia was truly ready for an AI data center surge, given power shortages and rising costs. This week, we zoom in on one of the biggest bottlenecks: cooling, which can swallow a substantial chunk of a facility’s energy bill.
Invisible Arteries: Subsea Cables in the Age of AI
Every click, every call, every binge-watch. Even the fact that you are reading this article right now. All of it travels through subsea cables: bundles of fiber-optic glass threads, often no thicker than a garden hose, lying silently on the ocean floor. We don’t talk about them much, but they are the invisible arteries of the internet, carryin…
Can Nuclear Power Fuel Southeast Asia’s AI Boom?
Singapore’s data centres are approaching full capacity, and regulators warn that supply may soon fall behind. In Jakarta, proposals for hyperscale campuses are multiplying, even as utility planners warn of grid limitations. Across Southeast Asia, the AI boom is running headlong into a constraint that chips and GPU…
Is Southeast Asia ready for an AI data center surge?
The AI boom isn’t coming, it’s already here. Behind the large language models (LLMs), image generators, and other machine learning tools are powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) and TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) to crunch vast amounts of data at incredible speed.