From massive renewable energy deals to Bond-villain-style underwater builds, here is everything you need to know this week!

This Week’s Highlights:

• Amazon’s Massive Power Play (Australia): Amazon inks 9 PPAs for 430MW of renewable power (wind, solar, and battery). We debate the "additionality" effect on the green energy market.

• The India Data Center Boom:

  • AWS: Expanding in Navi Mumbai with a $430M facility to fuel cloud and AI compute.

  • PDG: Breaking ground on their massive 120MW MU2 Mumbai campus.

  • Iron Mountain: Topping out their new 23.2MW hyperscale facility in Chennai.

  • PI Data Centres: Developing a new 23MW facility in Mumbai (Phase 1 coming in 3 months!).

• Major Moves in Malaysia:

  • TM Nxera (Singtel & TM): Topping out phase one (64MW) of what will be a colossal 280MW campus in Johor.

  • Preva & Inspur Cloud: Teaming up for a 10MW scalable data center in Perak.

• South Korea’s Underwater DC: Exploring the city of Ulsan's plans for a Carbon-Zero underwater data center that looks straight out of The Spy Who Loved Me.

• GDS Goes Green (China): Putting the circular economy into practice by swapping out diesel for HVO (used cooking oil) backup power.

We’ll be traveling to several events soon—come say hi!

• DCD South Europe (Madrid)

• Tech Capital's International Finance Forum (Presenting the APAC Award!)

• DCD Bali