EV Battery Giant CATL to Invest $5.1b for a Factory in Indonesia
China's CATL has decided to invest $5.1 billion in Indonesia to build a manufacturing plant for electric vehicle batteries.
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Jakarta. Contemporary Amperex Technology, or CATL, a battery manufacturer from China, has decided to invest $5.1 billion to build a manufacturing plant for electric vehicle batteries in Indonesia, the country's top investment official said on Monday.
The Head of Investment Coordinating Board Bahlil Lahadahlia said the company has recently signed the investment agreement and would break ground for the plant in 2021.
"The investment is about $5.1 billion. We signed the agreement when we were in China recently. The groundbreaking will commence in 2021," Bahlil said.
CATL booked $6.8 billion in sales worldwide, making it one of the world's largest electric car batteries makers. The company supplies batteries to carmakers like Hyundai, Honda, BMW, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Volvo.
Two years ago, CATL teamed up with Chinese stainless-steel maker Tsingshan Holding, Chinese battery firm GEM, Japanese trading firm Henwa and Indonesian industrial complex company Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park, a $700 million project to make battery-grade nickel chemicals in Morowali, Central Sulawesi.
Telkom Sinks $150m in Gojek to Expand in Digital Economy
State-controlled Telekomunikasi Indonesia, or Telkom, has decided to invest $150 million in Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa.
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Jakarta. State-controlled Telekomunikasi Indonesia, or Telkom, the country's largest telecommunication operator, has decided to invest $150 million in Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa, the local company behind popular mobile app Gojek, which provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and digital payment services.
The deal cemented the collaboration of two companies with arguably the largest customer base in Indonesia in their respective fields.
Andi Setiawan, Telkom's vice president for investor relations, said in a statement on Tuesday that the company's cellular operator unit Telekomunikasi Selular Indonesia (Telkomsel), signed an agreement for the investment Gojek on Monday.
GIC-backed SpaceDC opens new data center in Indonesia
KrASIA spoke with SpaceDC CEO Darren Hawkins about his vision for Indonesia's cloud and data center ecosystem.
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SpaceDC recently celebrated the launch of its Indonesia data center, JAK2, which opens up a new connection gateway to the country and the wider Southeast Asia region.
The data center, located in Jakarta, delivers 1.45 megawatts of power to local and global companies in the region - a region that is going through a major connectivity boom.
SpaceDC CEO Darren Hawkins, it is also home to Southeast Asia’s largest digital economy.
“It made sense for us to open our first facility in this market. With the connectivity afforded by this facility, local and global brands will now have access to a world-class data centre facility to connect to the SEA region – a region whose Internet economy has been valued at over US$100 billion, and is expected to swell to US$300 billion by 2025,” says Hawkins.
Global data center authority The Uptime Institute has certified JAK2 as a Tier III facility, and the data center has also been built to the highest global standards.
JAK2 guarantees 99.982% availability and is supported by onsite power generators and transformers, as well as an N+N backup system.
Furthermore, the data center is kept secure with the help of onsite security teams, as well as biometric and keycard access control.
SpaceDC takes green design seriously, which is why JAK2 is built with smart green features, including a green energy generator, and thermal wall technology for better cooling.
The company also installed a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) unit, which lowers carbon emissions from power generation. This reduces installation costs, facility downtime, and disruption time. All these features allow for power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.3, ensuring that business-critical data is always secure and accessible.
SpaceDC says these green efforts are in line with Indonesia’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
JAK2 also houses dedicated staging and storage rooms, as well as office spaces and meeting rooms.
The data center also caters for organisations that wish to set up and manage their operations remotely. JAK2 offers a ‘Smart Hands’ service, with skilled onsite technicians that are available 24/7 to provide support to customers, including managing deliveries and installations, performing compliance, updating software and equipment audits.
In addition to the launch of JAK2, SpaceDC has started building another data center, JAK1, which is designed to be a 24MW Tier III facility that will feature a larger campus with higher performance capabilities for customers looking to grow their IT infrastructure. JAK1 will be launched in 2021.
