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Tech Stories Issue #54 Hello Reader, Today I want to talk about my trip to the Databricks Data+AI Summit in San Francisco, as well as how Johor will soon host the majority of the data centre capacity in Malaysia. And oh, a quick mention of a friend's free branding webinar happening next week. Databricks Data+AI Summit Databricks AI+Data Summit 2025 When time allows, I like to attend tech conferences where I listen to keynotes, media briefings, and even technical workshops. The idea is to...

Tech Stories Digest Issue #53 Hello Reader, Could the next DC-CFA in Singapore be unveiled as soon as this coming week? There are probably quite a few WhatsApp messages going around about a closed-door meeting at IMDA in the coming days. The speculation? That it's the much-anticipated DC-CFA 2. I did some asking around myself, and my thinking is: probably not. But as they say, anything can happen. Anyway, this got me into a bit of a thought exercise. And for what it's worth, I think we are...

Tech Stories Digest Issue #52 Hello Reader, It's hard to believe we're already halfway through the year. Today, I want to talk about Equinix outage on Saturday, as well as how prefabricated, modular components made it possible to build a new data centre in Johor in just eight months, foundation included. Thank You! For those who responded to my survey last week, thank you! I'll incorporate some of the feedback into subsequent newsletter. If you didn't but would like to - perhaps you didn't...

Hello Reader, I was in Taipei this week for Computex and managed to squeeze in a few arranged meetings despite the packed schedule with a dinner meeting, three planned visits to exhibition showcases, and a chance encounter with several readers of this newsletter. In case you're wondering why it was such a whirlwind: it's a short trip and I was there at the invitation of Asus - check out this photo of their GB300 GPU servers here. That meant a tight schedule, with sessions lined up to get a...

Hello Reader, I just came back from Jakarta from W.Media's Indonesia Cloud and Datacenter Conference (CDC) and will be heading over to Taipei for Computex 2025 later today. So I'll keep it short today. The Indonesian data centre market It's been a few years since I visited Jakarta, and it was a chance to learn about the Indonesian data centre market first-hand. If there's one conclusion to draw, it's that Indonesia isn't just massive – it's truly unique. I learned that the typical Indonesian...

Hello Reader, If you're new here, a very warm welcome! I've realised I’ve been neglecting to greet new readers lately - you have my sincere apologies. This newsletter lands in your inbox every Sunday morning with a digest of my weekly stories. Since the start of the year, I’ve also been writing longer opening messages. My goal is simple: to share what I’m working on and what I’m observing in the technology landscape, and to get you thinking and seeing things in a new light. The future of data...

Hello Reader, When ChatGPT first came out, it scared me. Sure, its output was often boring - and occasionally a little weird. But I could see how it significantly narrowed the gap between what I could create and the average writing out there. And it's only going to get better. I’ve always believed in tackling challenges head-on. So even though I could write circles around the formulaic output of GPT-3.5, I did exactly that by using AI across a wide range of my writing assignments. AI can be...

Hello Reader, I had a number of very interesting conversations since I wrote the last newsletter that really got me thinking. I share one of them today. And yes, you can now leave comments on TechStories.co - more on that later. The shifting edge of plagiarism Last weekend, someone posted a note on a work-related chat group. It contained screenshots of two surprisingly similar LinkedIn posts with the same photo. The question, of course, was whether the latter post plagiarised the earlier one....

Hello Reader, We're almost in May, the month when Singapore announced 300MW of new data centre capacity at last year's ATxSummit. Back then, IMDA said it would make up to 300MW available "in the short term." As we approach the one-year mark with no new updates - and no fresh DC-CFA to allocate additional data centre capacity, I have a haunch. All signs point to another shift in Singapore's data centre policy, and AirTrunk's rumoured 80MW data centre might be part of it. ("Signs point to...