Global digital infrastructure firm DigitalBridge Group has announced the acquisition of an ownership stake in AIMS Group from Malaysian telecoms firm TIME dotcom and the formation of an edge data centre platform focused on the high-growth markets of the Southeast Asia region.

AIMS is a leading operator of highly connected ecosystem-centric data centres based in Malaysia. Its Kuala Lumpur flagship Menara AIMS facility anchors the Malaysia Internet Exchange.

AIMS’ facilities provide highly inter-connected environments to a diverse customer base, comprising domestic and international telecommunications carriers, major enterprises, hyperscalers and content distribution networks. AIMS also operates a state-of-the-art purpose-built data centre campus in Cyberjaya and a new facility in downtown Bangkok.

The stake has been sold for about 2 billion ringgit (US$436.7 million). Proceeds from the stake sales will be partly used by TIME to pay a special dividend of up to 1 billion ringgit to its shareholders. The balance will be reinvested into TIME. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close in 2023.

Reuters points out that the deal, announced at a time of political upheaval in Malaysia, underscores booming demand for infrastructure assets such as data centres in Southeast Asia as investors are lured by their stable, long-term returns.

Describing TIME as having a long heritage of building connectivity-linked businesses across Southeast Asia, Justin Chang, Managing Director and Head of Asia for DigitalBridge, has been quoted as saying: “AIMS is a leading operator in the region poised for significant growth, with a strong management team, a robust development pipeline and considerable expansion capacity.”

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Amazon penned an agreement to develop four solar panel projects in Indonesia with state-owned energy company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN, AKA Pesero), from which it will acquire 210 megawatts of renewable energy capacity. 

Data and Storage ASEAN reported the new renewable energy projects are located in Bali and Java on the Java-Madura-Bali grid.

“The Indonesian government is committed to reducing greenhouse emissions to achieve net zero goals by 2060,” said Darmawan Prasodjo, president director of PLN (Persero).

“PLN is fully committed to supporting the government’s program to enable clean energy and is accelerating this with a clear roadmap to achieve that mission. This collaboration between the private and public sectors is a key strategy to ensuring a future of clean and affordable energy.”
 
“PLN will build four new utility-scale power generation projects included in the 2021 – 2030 Electricity Supply Business Plan (RUPTL), which is the greenest RUPTL we have had in national history with the addition of 20.9 gigawatts of renewable energy power plants. With this agreement we are supporting Amazon on its path to 100% renewable energy, and hope this initiative will inspire future collaborations with other aspiring environmentally-conscious multinational corporations,” Darmawan added.

“We are delighted to announce our first renewable energy projects in Indonesia in collaboration with PLN, putting Amazon on a path towards 100% renewable energy,” said Amazon Web Services managing director of data centre planning and Delivery for Asia-Pacific, Japan and China, Carly Wishart.

“PLN and Amazon teams have worked together to unlock a new way for corporates to procure renewable energy in the country. Our renewable energy projects will supply energy for Amazon’s operations in Indonesia and help advance Amazon’s goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions across its business by 2040. We look forward to this continued collaboration with PLN to enable more renewable energy projects in Indonesia.”  

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Hungary’s Magyar Telekom – a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom – has selected Mavenir to deploy its cloud-native containerised Converged Packet Core.

The solution will lay the foundation for quickly and easily deploying new enterprise applications and services, taking advantage of 5G features such as low latency and network slicing. Using open architecture, it will offer network slicing with dedicated control and user plane network functions for meeting strict service level agreements.

The fully containerised solution is based on stateless microservice architecture that allows better resiliency and faster recovery in the event of network failures. It also enables the easy onboarding of users on Deutsche Telekom Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS).

Laszlo Boka, Platform and Core Services Tribe Lead at Magyar Telekom said: “It was important for us to partner with a software provider that could deliver on three main fronts: a Converged Packet Core to support all access technology integration from 2G to 5G, an open architecture that could run on our specified hardware and software platforms, and seamless integration with third-party network functions.”

Magyar Telekom will use Deutsche Telekom’s locally deployed private cloud solution. The converged architecture of Mavenir’s packet core will support 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G non-standalone (NSA), and 5G standalone (SA) modes and enable all access technologies to run on the common cloud-native platform provided by Deutsche Telekom.

Ashok Khuntia, President for Core Networks at Mavenir, said, “Working with Mobile Network Operators globally, we’ve created an agile software delivery process that accommodates specific integration and feature requirements. Integrating Mavenir’s Converged Packet Core into Magyar Telekom’s existing network will enable a fully automated network with the reliability, scale and flexibility to deliver innovative services.”

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