Facebook to Invest $1 Billion in First Asian Data Centre in Singapore

HIGHLIGHTS The data centre is slated to open in 2022 Facebook’s facility will be located in the west of the island Data centre isn’t country specific to where users are located: Facebook Facebook said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,100 crores) to build its first data centre in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022. Facebook’s facility will be located in the west of the island, near where Google is expanding its Singapore data centres in an $850 million (roughly Rs. 61,000 crores) investment as mobile…

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Singapore blocking net get right of entry to on authorities computer systems

Singapore showed Wednesday it would reduce off internet get right of entry to for authorities paintings stations within a year for security motives, a surprise circulate in one of the global’s maximum stressed countries. The decision will now not disrupt government operations, the Infocomm development Authority (IDA) stated after neighborhood every day The Straits times reported that a few a hundred,000 computer systems would be affected. “we’ve got began to separate internet get admission to from the work stations of a particular organization of public provider officials, and will do…

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Ten things to do in Singapore

It has the third highest per capita income in the world. So it’s rich, it’s safe, it’s clean – & the mean spirited call it sterile… Here’s the thing, turn a corner and Singapore will surprise you. 1. Eating at Hawker Stalls: Recommended out of the 100s Breakfast: Queue up for Xien Xien porridge at Maxwell market Lunch: Tiong Bahru Dinner: Food trail old hawker 2. Arab street: Probably the most hybrid street you’ll ever meet… Here you’ll find Kampong houses, raised on traditional stilts, with French louvred windows, British…

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