Soon Chen Kang is a senior research analyst in the 451 Research technology research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence covering datacenter activities in Asia-Pacific for the Datacenter Services and Infrastructure channel. Soon Chen’s research area includes expansion activities, customer verticals, industry growth projections and pricing dynamics of the datacenter colocation market. Her most recent work focuses on go-to-market analysis of the emerging datacenter markets in Southeast Asia. Prior to this role, Soon Chen was a journalist covering the consumer sector at S&P Global Market Intelligence. She wrote extensively on the evolving e-commerce landscape in the region. Soon Chen holds a Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language degree from University Malaya. She is fluent in Chinese and Bahasa Malaysia.
Regional datacenter platform Digital Edge has brought online its first greenfield datacenter in South Korea. Located in Bupyeong, Incheon, the facility has secured an international cloud provider as its anchor tenant and Digital Edge is already seeking out new sites around Seoul.
This report provides an overview of the competitive dynamics in the market, a listing of the competitors in the area, market share of the dominant providers, supply-demand and utilization trends, and discussion of planned multi-tenant datacenter builds.
A 17-story facility, HK6 will be Equinix's largest datacenter in Hong Kong when it launches in Q1 2026. Even though Equinix may be exposed to the headwinds facing Hong Kong's datacenter market, services offered by the provider remain in demand within the shifting landscape.
The Singapore-based firm is constructing a multistory datacenter, KR1, in Seocho, Gangnam, in the heart of Seoul. With 40 MW of power capacity secured, KR1 is targeted at enterprise and hyperscaler customers. The provider aims to bring the first phase of KR1 online in Q3 2025.
In a largely regulated telco market, Equinix has been, and still is, among the handful of international operators in Seoul. The company's ongoing focus on interconnection, and increasingly, digital services, looks to bring value to customers with such requirements.
The regional datacenter operator now owns two datacenters in Singapore following the purchase of Yahoo's facility. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure in the site, which has an operating capacity of 5 megawatts of IT load.
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