Actis has launched Epoch Digital, a data center platform in Asia with a portfolio under development offering 200 megawatts of IT capacity across three identified projects and a strong pipeline for future growth.
Epoch Digital targets to develop, own and operate a scalable and geographically diversified portfolio of data centers across strategic and highly selective markets in Asia where hyperscale customers — big tech and cloud service providers — are growing with imminent demand.
The first project is a 23-megawatt IT capacity data center in the heart of Taipei, Taiwan. The second will support 120 megawatts of capacity in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and is aimed at meeting data center demand from neighboring Singapore, where a moratorium on data center development was enacted in 2019. The third development is for a data center near Seoul.
Epoch Digital will be managed by CEO Hak Kiat Chng and COO Pei Ping Lim, who have worked together for more than a decade and l