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VIEW IN BROWSER NOVEMBER 23, 2025 Tech Stories In this issue #75 30,000 followers: What I'm actually thankful for Johor's data centre water situation Cloudflare's 6-hour outage and more... Hello Reader, I'm preparing to head off for a long-awaited family holiday next week. As such, I'll keep things brief. It's just me Two things happened recently that got me thinking. The first was last weekend when the deputy CEO of a listed firm in Southeast Asia dropped me a WhatsApp message. He couldn't...

VIEW IN BROWSER NOVEMBER 16, 2025 Tech Stories In this issue #75 Thailand's spectacular growth Why Singtel wants STT GDC Why I write my posts by hand and more... Hello Reader, Thank you if you came up to me in Bangkok to say hi and exchange name cards. I'll drop a WhatsApp message soon if I haven't done so yet; feel free to beat me to it too - I promise I won't get upset. Today, let's talk about the Thailand data centre market and the road ahead for operators in this part of the world. Land...

VIEW IN BROWSER NOVEMBER 09, 2025 Tech Stories Digest In this issue #74 Malaysia's first data centre water reclamation plant Singapore's fastest supercomputers The hackers who earned US$1M and more... Hello Reader, If you sent me an email or LinkedIn note recently, thank you. I don't say it enough, but I truly appreciate all the feedback and encouraging messages I get. Admittedly, I sometimes miss replying to LinkedIn messages due to how cluttered the interface is. You do know you can reply...

VIEW IN BROWSER NOVEMBER 02, 2025 Tech Stories Digest In this issue #73 Singapore's data centre strategy The Jurong Island bet The race condition that broke AWS and more... Hello Reader, This week, I decided to stop dithering and switch this weekly digest to a new template I've been eyeing. There are still areas to polish, but I hope you like what you see. Today, let's take a closer look at Singapore's data centre strategy and its link to Jurong Island. 700MW data centre park On Monday, JTC...

Tech Stories Issue #72 Hello Reader, Today, I want to talk about Johor and how the surge of data centres in Malaysia could offer a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build something truly special. A big thank you I had a hectic but fruitful two days in Kuala Lumpur last week - the Malaysia Cloud & Datacenter Convention 2025 itself on Thursday, and the networking session the evening before. Thank you to all who stepped forward to say hi. I'm especially encouraged to hear how my posts resonate...

Tech Stories Issue #71 Hello Reader, Would you do me a favour today? If you've enjoyed this newsletter and my weekly commentary, would you take a few seconds to forward it to one person who might also enjoy it? A short personal note helps, but please don't badger them to sign up - they'll subscribe if they find it valuable. Thanks! Thanks! See you in Kuala Lumpur I'll be attending w.media's Malaysia CDC 2025 at the Connexion Conference & Event Centre next Thursday. I'm involved in a panel...

Tech Stories Issue #70 Hello Reader, Today, let's talk about life-giving water. What role does water play in the functioning of modern data centres, and what could possibly go wrong? For the former: Everything. And a lot could go wrong, it turns out. Before we go into that, a bit about what happened this week. Data Centre World Asia Some of you reached out ahead of DCW and invited me to your booths, which I duly noted on my to-do list. But I didn't actually get the chance to spend much time...

Tech Stories Issue #69 Hello Reader, It's F1 in Singapore this week. If there's one thing F1 cars and data centres have in common, it's how they look alike from afar. But look closer and the changes under the hood are astounding. There's one difference though: the sheer pace of data centre construction has created a drastic shortage of skilled talent. Today, let's talk about the silent skills crisis hitting Southeast Asian data centres, the potential of Microsoft's microfluidics to reshape...

Tech Stories Issue #68 Hello Reader, I'm travelling for work this weekend, so I'll keep this brief. Two data centre disasters struck Asia Pacific this week. On Wednesday, a ruptured liquid cooling pipe caused chaos at a Southeast Asian facility. On Friday, a fire at one of South Korea's government data centre knocked out hundreds of crucial services. Let's talk about data centre disasters this week. My friend Junhan is running a 1-day paid masterclass in Singapore called "Visualise Your...