Inside Asia’s Increasing Demand for Cloud Expansion

By Marvin Tan, Oct 11, 2023
WAN Cloud

In a recent interview with Asian Telecom, I was asked to shed light on Asia’s prominence in global cloud services. More specifically, why are data centers and cloud services expanding so rapidly in Asia?

As population density increases, there is a natural surge in data consumption, like cloud services. So it makes sense that Asia—home to 60% of the world’s population—has a growing demand for data centers.

But that's not the only catalyst here, and there are numerous advantages to having data centers clustered across Asia.


 

Marvin Tan

Marvin Tan

Marvin Tan is a Senior Research Analyst at TeleGeography. Based in Singapore, he's part of the company’s infrastructure research team, focusing primarily on submarine cables, terrestrial networks, and internet infrastructure in Asia Pacific.

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