My 2025 in review: Highs, lows, and the road ahead
LinkedIn won't load my year-end review. So I wrote my own.
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Storytellers wanted: Why brands are betting on humans again
Even OpenAI ensures humans are involved before content goes out the door.
Inside the first data centre-operated water reclamation plant in Southeast Asia
Bridge Data Centres flips the script on water in Johor
Singapore wants to put solar panels between buildings
Running out of rooftops, Singapore now wants to harvest solar from spaces between buildings.
PDG's JH1 campus grows to 200MW
PDG tops out its third building at JH1 and starts on a fourth.
Why everyone wants in on Singapore's DC-CFA2
Singapore's 200MW offering seems small. The strategy behind it isn't.
LinkedIn's ominous warning and the false positive problem
LinkedIn is clamping down aggressively, but distinguishing bad actors at scale is hard.
Why Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold only folds inward
The one thing Samsung's TriFold didn't copy from Huawei.
What DC-CFA2 means for data centres in Singapore
The DC-CFA2 offers 200MW of capacity, but the sustainability requirements are eye-opening.
BW Digital's subsea cable to land directly at Digital Realty's SIN12
The 50km NCC subsea cable will deliver sub-2ms latency between Batam and Singapore.
Empyrion Digital announces 200MW data centre campus in Johor
Singapore-headquartered operator has power, approvals, and a Q4 2026 target.
Singapore is still very much in the data centre game
Three takeaways from an evening of non-stop conversations with data centre leaders.
Writing
Almost 5,000 saves later, LinkedIn is changing
Almost 5,000 saves in the last 365 days alone, but LinkedIn's Boost button hints at a pay-to-play shift.
Gadgets
The MX Master 4 adds haptics and is built to last
Logitech's latest mouse ditches the melting rubber and adds a novel haptic feedback feature.
Data Centres
My opening speech at the w.media Asia Awards 2025
Asia's organic demand could be our backstop.
AI
A short break, a long list of developments
The tech news pile-up includes DC-CFA 2 and new AI developments.
Writing
Everyone's using AI to write, and now you can spot it
Does knowing content is AI-written change its value to you?
Data Centres
The truth about Johor's data centre water situation until mid-2027
Water isn't a new challenge, and there are solutions available today.
Enterprise
The Cloudflare outage that affected ChatGPT, X, and Spotify
The bug was straightforward, but recovery was delayed by sporadic false recoveries that confused engineers.
Data Centres
How wastewater treatment plants give data centres greater resilience
Data centres have diverse fibre pathways and multiple power substations. Why rely on one water source?
Data Centres
PDG unveils 48 MW South Korea data centre with fuel cells
The 48MW facility will feature fuel cells due to South Korea's Special Act on Distributed Energy Activation.
Writing
What I'm actually thankful for after 30,000 followers
What I'm thankful for isn't follower count but the richness of insights from experts around the globe.
Writing
Why I write my posts by hand in the age of AI content
AI-generated posts mislead with focus on sensationalism and likes.
Data Centres
What is COC and why it matters for data centre water efficiency
Why COC is critical for water-hungry data centres.