The Ultimate Guide to AI Infrastructure
A curated Asian edition of IndustrialDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for AI Infrastructure.
What to know about AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure explores the hardware, software, and systems that make modern artificial intelligence possible. This tag covers everything from compute and storage architectures to networking, data pipelines, and observability stacks that keep AI workloads reliable and efficient.
Stories here dig into practical questions: how to design scalable training and inference clusters, choose between GPUs and emerging accelerators, manage feature stores, and orchestrate distributed workloads. You’ll find discussions of MLOps practices, cost optimization, performance tuning, and the trade-offs behind different infrastructure patterns.
Whether you’re building a new AI platform or evolving an existing stack, this tag helps you understand the components, constraints, and design decisions that sit underneath AI products. Reading these pieces will give you concrete examples, architectural patterns, and lessons learned that you can apply to your own systems.
Asian AI Infrastructure News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Synopsys joins NUS tropical data centre cooling consortium
Cooling could account for up to 40% of energy use in tropical data centres, spurring research on cheaper, more efficient systems for AI workloads.
Zhi Sheng lands USD $590 million loan for Thailand AI hub
The Thai project has moved deeper into construction after a seven-year bank facility was secured against expected long-term rental income.
Gonka eyes AI chips to tackle compute concentration
The move could widen access to AI infrastructure, but Gonka says any chip design will need to prove it can beat current economics before manufacture.
Vertiv opens Singapore centre for AI infrastructure
Operators facing surging AI demand can now test integrated cooling and power systems at a new Singapore facility for dense computing workloads.
ZanKore secures USD $3.1 billion loan for AI build
Banks are backing one of Asia's largest AI infrastructure financings, as ZanKore funds 100 MW of GPU capacity for Indonesia and the region.
Firebird signs Kazakhstan deal to expand AI infrastructure
The project could bring 45,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs to Kazakhstan by 2027, bolstering the country's bid for domestic AI models.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Infrastructure
Flexxon invests in Tech4Biz for secure server build
InfrOS launches tool to adapt cloud infrastructure for AI
MongoDB launches Atlas Agent Engine for production AI
Gartner forecasts AI strain on services, costs & jobs
LG's 2.6MW cooling unit wins NVIDIA DSX qualification
Featured News
Exclusive: Castrol puts data centre experts behind CORE
The shift towards AI-ready liquid cooling is prompting Castrol to target new-build data centres and costly retrofits across Asia Pacific.
Interview: Cloudera says AI agents reshape zero trust
Enterprises must update identity controls as software agents generate more requests and need tightly time-limited access to sensitive systems.
VAST Data targets AI data sovereignty with DataEnclave
Enterprises and governments could run AI on sensitive data without exposing it, as the technology targets sovereignty rules across APAC.
Interview: Cloudera bets on hybrid AI growth in JAPAC
Banks and large enterprises in Asia-Pacific are rethinking cloud-first AI plans as costs, sovereignty and regulation favour hybrid deployments.
Future of AI is distributed infrastructure built on open source
Rising AI demand is exposing cloud bottlenecks, as firms eye in-house open source systems to cut costs and limit vendor lock-in.
Open source is powering the next generation of frontier AI
Rising inference demand and custom hardware needs are pushing AI infrastructure beyond standard cloud setups, boosting open source tools.
Managing energy, water constraints critical to Australia's AI ambitions
Policy should focus on technology inside new data centres, as an expert says smarter regulation could curb power and water strain while supporting AI growth.
Expert Columns
AI agents will multiply your inference bill. Is your enterprise ready?
The Next Evolution of Data Centres Isn't Technology. It's People
Building Infrastructure for an AI World in Motion
Why AI's real cost is bigger than the invoice
Fluent is not factual: Why AI needs verified data in APAC
How businesses can avoid widespread harm from cloud outages
AI's data centre overhaul forcing a network rethink
The data center math has changed
AI fuels M&A deals across Australia & Southeast Asia
Building trusted access into Australia's next generation of data centres
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Infrastructure News
llm-d 1.0 aims to ease production AI inference at scale
The release gives enterprises a steadier base for running agentic AI workloads in production, with lower infrastructure strain and less downtime.
Forrester says AI bubble fears are still premature
Heavy spending on AI data centres is still being funded by cash-rich tech groups, but the economics look tighter as outside capital is drawn in.
Hitachi Vantara adds AI analytics tools to VSP One
Enterprises could cut AI data-handling overhead as the storage group adds native analytics, governed model access and faster object storage to VSP One.
Industrial AI shifts from demos to tightly controlled use
Industrial users are adopting AI only in tightly bounded roles, as safety, power and integration constraints keep deployments under close human control.
AMD launches 6th Gen EPYC chips for AI data centres
The new chips are already shipping from major hardware vendors as AMD targets heavier AI and cloud workloads in the data centre.
Nvidia donates OpenShell to CNCF as it backs agent scale
The move puts autonomous AI agents and GPU clusters under open source scrutiny as NVIDIA seeks to shape the Kubernetes stack around them.
Mubbadrah leads USD $3 billion Oman AI data centre plan
The project could give Oman a larger role in AI infrastructure, with a 400 MW campus planned to draw on grid power and renewables.
Dell expands AI factory with NVIDIA for agentic AI
More than 6,500 customers have adopted Dell's AI Factory with NVIDIA as it adds deskside systems, servers and managed services for agentic AI.
VAST Data says 14 customers committed USD $10 billion
Four customers each committed more than USD $1 billion as demand for AI storage systems pushed VAST's aggregate customer pledges above USD $10 billion.
NVIDIA launches Minerva to spot AI factory faults early
The software aims to cut downtime and boost output for operators of massive GPU clusters by turning event storms into likely root causes.
Rakon launches timing portfolio for AI data centres
Better timing is becoming a bottleneck in AI clusters, prompting Rakon to add clocks and oscillators for networking, synchronisation and compute layers.
ZenteiQ boosts inference throughput with Google Gateway
The startup says more reliable data generation is keeping pre-training on schedule after throughput rose 4.07 times across its production clusters.
DayOne backs NVIDIA's AI data centre design standard
The tie-up could help hyperscalers bring AI capacity online sooner by standardising how compute, power and cooling are deployed.
Fleet adds NVIDIA AI workstations to device management
IT teams can now monitor AI workstations and deskside supercomputers alongside laptops and servers, tightening oversight as firms adopt NVIDIA hardware.
Google Cloud now adds OpenAI models to Model Garden
Enterprise customers will be able to compare and switch models by cost and performance on one invoice, intensifying cloud rivalry over AI access.
Schneider Electric launches modular AI data centre design
Rising demand for AI computing is pushing operators towards repeatable builds, and Schneider Electric says its new modular design can speed deployments.
CrowdStrike expands ties with Dynatrace & CoreWeave
Security teams may gain faster investigations as CrowdStrike links Falcon to Dynatrace telemetry and brings protection to CoreWeave's AI cloud.
CrowdStrike & Dell launch AI Factory security package
The package aims to help enterprises secure AI systems from infrastructure to agents as they rush to deploy production workloads.
Melbourne overtakes Sydney in Australia data centre boom
Melbourne's faster approvals are helping it pull ahead of Sydney, as Australia's data centre pipeline expands by 5.2GW and shifts beyond the east coast hubs.
Enteligent unveils PowerCore stack for AI data centres
The stack could lift AI rack compute density by up to 50% as operators face rising power demands and heat from GPU-heavy workloads.