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Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, has launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region. As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than US$5 B in Thailand. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. AWS estimates the construction and ongoing operation of the new AWS region will add approximately US$10 B to Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) and support an average of more than 11,000 full-time-equivalent jobs at external businesses annually. These jobs, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and others within the country’s broader economy, will be part of the AWS supply chain in Thailand. “I would like to extend my appreciation to Amazon Web Services for investing in the development of data centres in Thailand,” said Paetongtarn Shinawatra, PM of Thailand. “I am pleased that Thailand’s potential and readiness ha...

Japanese AI company Turing has established its computation platform for full driving automation at Digital Realty’s NRT10 data centre in Japan. NRT10, a certified NVIDIA DGX-ready data centre featuring a high-density power supply, provides the ideal environment for maximising GPU performance and efficiency. Turing, a pioneer in the development of full driving automation technology, is working on an end-to-end self-driving system that uses AI to control all driving functions, such as steering, acceleration, and braking, solely based on data from the vehicle’s cameras. The company has advanced autonomous driving by creating Heron , a multimodal generative AI that makes sophisticated decisions using text and visual data, and Terra , a generative world model that understands complex real-world situations and generates realistic driving scenes as videos. Turing is now focused on its flagship project, Tokyo30 , aiming to achieve Level 5 full driving automation for 30 minutes or more in ...