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Asia-Pacific and Japan hyperscale data centre specialist , AirTrunk , and Hong Kong ’ s major power utility , CLP Power Hong Kong Limited ( CLP Power ), have announced a renewable energy solution in Hong Kong that will match Microsoft ’ s data centre electricity consumption with local Renewable Energy Certificates ( RECs ). Under the agreement , AirTrunk will source hourly RECs from CLP Power to provide renewable energy matching at its HKG1 data centre for its customer , Microsoft , setting a number of industry benchmarks .
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Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) has announced plans to open an infrastructure region in Thailand . The new AWS Asia Pacific ( Bangkok ) region will consist of three availability zones , adding to the existing 87 availability zones across 27 geographic regions . The upcoming AWS region in Thailand will enable developers , start-ups and enterprises , as well as government , education and non-profit organisations , to run their applications and serve end-users from AWS data centres located there , ensuring customers who want to keep their data in Thailand can do so .
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