Jennifer Molloy

Asia Pacific data center investment reached a record $11.6 billion in 2025, as power availability increasingly determines where new capacity can be delivered, according to CBRE’s 2026 Asia Pacific Data Center Trends & Outlook Report. As AI demand accelerates, growth is shifting beyond traditional hubs towards power-advantaged markets, including Malaysia, Australia and India. This is redrawing the region’s data center footprint.

The Reagent Collaboration Network (Reclone) seeks to address the global asymmetry in research and development in biotechnology across the Global South through open sharing of biomaterials, protocols and knowledge. The end goal is to build an international community enabling more sustainable, equitable and decentralized reagent manufacturing. The initiative works through regional distribution hubs and nodes to provide local access to resources and expertise in reagent manufacturing.

Deep domestic capital and a flight-to-quality underpin resilience across the Asia Pacific region, according to Colliers’ Q1 2026 Asia Pacific Cap Rates report, which notes investor demand increasingly concentrated on prime assets and defensive sectors. The report highlights a shift in investor behaviour, with capital being deployed more selectively towards high-quality, income-secure assets across key Asia Pacific markets.