Google sees significant investment potential in India, the world's most populous nation where nearly a billion users access the internet

The chipmakers plan to set up two data centres in the country, and will also supply memory chips for the Stargate Project in the US

Over the past three years, Beijing has invested billions in a nationwide project to build computing data centres and it is now working on efficiently linking them together

Chinese market analysts believe DeepSeek's launch is a 'watershed' moment that shows Beijing can hold its ground amid an intense tech war with rival US

The high valuations for the sector in Asia are partly linked to data centre operators adding more capacity and the nascent nature of the business in the region

Data centres are requiring increasing amounts of energy, creating challenges for firms like Amazon, which has committed to have net-zero carbon emissions by 2040