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New Straits Times
20-06-2025
- Business
- New Straits Times
Yayasan Petronas adopts 50 schools under Sekolah Angkat Madani initiative
PUTRAJAYA: Yayasan Petronas has adopted 50 schools nationwide in the government's Sekolah Angkat Madani initiative, with a key focus on enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. Its chief executive officer, Nelly Francis, said the foundation's involvement is centred on schools that currently participate in its Duta Guru Programme (PDG), a long-term initiative aimed at strengthening STEM teaching and learning. "Under this initiative, we have selected 50 schools out of the 1,000 nationwide that are already involved in our PDG. "These schools were chosen based on specific criteria, including their active participation in our existing programmes," she told reporters when met after the launch of the initiative today. The launch was attended by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek. Nelly said priority was given to schools located in rural areas, with the majority of them in Sabah, Sarawak, Terengganu and Johor, as well as several schools in Kedah, Perak and Kelantan. As part of the support, she said teachers from the selected schools will undergo a two-year professional development programme designed to equip them with skills to cultivate students' interest in STEM and guide them towards pursuing careers in the field. "It is not just about improving the teaching environment, but also inspiring students to view STEM as a viable and exciting career path," she said. Apart from empowering teachers, Yayasan Petronas also runs programmes for students under the Student Innovation Centre, provides contributions to improve school science laboratories, and develops STEM hubs in six regions. "We have completed STEM hubs in Tanjung Garam, Kuala Terengganu and Miri, Sarawak, while new hubs in Sabah, Johor, Melaka and Perak are currently under construction," she said. Nelly said these STEM hubs serve as platforms for teachers to further refine and apply the skills gained through PDG, as well as collaborate with other educators in their districts to enrich classroom learning. "All students in the adopted schools will be involved, particularly those who are pursuing STEM-related subjects," she said. Nelly reaffirmed that advancing STEM education remains one of Yayasan Petronas' core missions. "Right now, one of our key targets is to increase students' participation in STEM. We believe through sustained collaboration with teachers and schools, we can help shape the future of Malaysia's STEM talents," she said.
Press and Journal
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Press and Journal
Would you charter a private helicopter to Aberdeen's Scottish Cup Final at Hampden?
With Aberdeen's Scottish Cup Final tickets completely sold out – trains, buses and roads to Glasgow are set to be pushed to the limit on May 24. Facing the stress of getting to Hampden Park, it might push some Dons fans to get creative in their travel plans to Scotland's spiritual home of football. And with packed trains and gridlocked roads all expected – it might make some football fans wish they could fly to the all-important cup clash with Celtic. But, can you? That's where PDG Aviation Services come in – offering Dons fans the chance to be taken to their cup final seat in style. They offer commercial flights from Aberdeen Airport to Glasgow 365 days a year – including on the day of the match. They are no strangers to sport either, being previously called in for 'Super Saturday' in 2018. On that day, they were tasked with delivering the Scottish League One trophy to winners Ayr United at short notice following a final day decider with Raith Rovers. They have also been involved with the PGA to assist in the Ryder Cup and with various horse racing events in Scotland. But, is it really a viable option for Aberdeen fans in a hurry to get to Glasgow? We asked PDG sales manager Duncan McDonald, 57, everything about the alternative mode of travel for the big day. We were told that fans could be lifted to the game in an Airbus B-BYZA. The helicopter can carry up to eight passengers, and can take off from the majority of helipads in the country. With the helicopter unable to land at or in the vicinity of Hampden, passengers will be dropped at the nearest heliport. The nearest port is in Govan, with the second nearest being at Glasgow Airport in Paisley. We asked how much it would cost to take three friends to the final on the day of the match. PDG estimates quoted us £7,500 in total to take us down to the game. Duncan said the price would vary depending on where people were taking off from, where they were landing and how many passengers there were. No Dons fans have yet taken up the option to fly to the match, although 'there is still time.' Fans of the club have flown to previous finals as well as to golf and racing events. Meanwhile, 1990 Scottish Cup hero Hans Gillhaus has revealed why he missed his Reds Hall of Fame induction in January. The Press and Journal has revealed plans for the Dutch icon to get up on stage alongside cup-winning skipper Alex McLeish, as well as ex-strike partner Charlie Nicholas, goalkeeping compatriot Theo Snelders and winning penalty scorer Brian Irvine next Thursday.
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Business Standard
05-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Princeton Digital seals Rs 125 cr annual lease deal in Navi Mumbai's Airoli
Singapore-based Princeton Digital Group (PDG), Asia's leading data centre provider, has taken on lease over 1 million sq. ft. of space across three buildings in the Airoli Knowledge Park, Navi Mumbai—marking a major expansion of its digital infrastructure footprint in India. The properties, owned and sub-leased by Gigaplex Estate Pvt Ltd, will be used by Princeton Digital Group (PDG) to set up large-scale data center operations. The transaction spans three buildings—9A, 7, and 11—located on Plot No. IT-5, with a combined chargeable area of 10,58,568 sq. ft, according to property documents accesed by CRE Matrix, a real estate analytics firm. Lease details: Effective Rent Rate: Rs 98.50 per sq. ft. across all buildings Lease Period: 20 years for Buildings 9A & 7, and 40 years for Building 11 Lock-In Period: 15 years Annual Rent Escalation: 4% for the first 15 years, increasing to 5% thereafter In addition to the base rent, parking charges of Rs 5,000 per car per month and complex maintenance charges of ₹2 per sq. ft. (with 5% annual escalation) will apply, further elevating the value of the deal. With a total starting monthly rent of ₹10.42 crore, the first-year rent alone amounts to ₹125.04 crore, excluding other costs such as maintenance and parking. Given the 15-year lock-in and 20–40 year lease durations, the long-term financial commitment exceeds several thousand crores. This reflects Princeton Digital Group's confidence in India's digital growth trajectory and its intent to build out a large-scale hyperscale data center hub in Navi Mumbai. Last year, Princeton Digital Group unveiled a major growth plan for India by expanding capacity to a total of 230 MW in the country, driving an investment programme of $1 billion. This is part of PDG's new $5-billion investment programme for AI-ready data centres in Asia. In September 2024, Princeton Digital Group entered into a strategic partnership with K Raheja Corp-backed Mindspace Business Parks REIT to develop the formers' largest data center campus in India, at Mindspace Airoli West. Navi Mumbai has emerged as a leading hub for cloud infrastructure, driven by its strategic location near submarine cable landing stations, stable power supply with zero outage, availability of renewable energy, and robust infrastructure. Mumbai has emerged as one of the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region's most competitive data centre leasing markets, driven by AWS-led colocation growth. The city's data centre ecosystem is being transformed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is significantly scaling through large-scale colocation leases rather than self-builds, accelerating Mumbai's emergence as a regional data centre powerhouse, said the latest Knight Frank report titled 'Global Data Centres Report'.
Economic Times
05-05-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Princeton Digital Group leases over 1 million sq ft for data centre hub in Navi Mumbai
Princeton Digital Group (PDG) is developing its largest data centre campus in India, leasing over 1.06 million sq ft in Navi Mumbai's Airoli. The long-term lease, valued at Rs 3,745 crore, is part of a strategic partnership with Mindspace REIT. This expansion is part of PDG's $1 billion investment plan to reach 230 MW capacity in India. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Singapore-based global data centre operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has picked up over 1.06 million sq ft of commercial space in Navi Mumbai 's Airoli locality to develop its largest data centre campus in India through a long-term lease of over 20 company's total rental commitment across the three transactions is estimated at Rs 3,745 crore over the lease term, making it one of the most significant leasing deals in India's data centre deals, concluded across three separate lease agreements, form part of a strategic partnership between PDG and K Raheja Corp-backed listed Mindspace Business Parks REIT for a five-building data centre campus within the larger 50-acre Mindspace Airoli West are part of PDG's growth plan for India to expand capacity to a total of 230 MW in the country, driving an investment programme of $1 billion. This is part of PDG's new $5 billion investment programme for AI-ready data centres in the new deals, the first lease covers 252,000 sq ft across ground plus seven floors at Rs 2.48 crore per month. The second spans 315,000 sq ft across ground plus six floors with a monthly rent of Rs 3.10 crore, while the third and largest lease covers 491,000 sq ft at Rs 4.83 crore, according to documents accessed through realty data analytics platform Propstack.'These buildings will be developed in phases and rentals will commence upon delivery of each phase. Accordingly, the total rental payout will also be staggered,' said one of the persons aware of the three leases will collectively add over 1 million sq ft of built-to-suit space at Gigaplex Estate's Airoli Knowledge Park across 22 floors spanning three entire buildings designed to meet the high-density requirements of data centre email queries to PDG and Mindspace REIT remained unanswered until press REIT has already developed two data centres with nearly 0.63 million sq ft for PDG and the new deals will push the total hub size to nearly 1.7 million sq three leases are structured for a 4% annual escalation for the first 15 years, followed by 5% annual escalation from the 16th year onwards. A 10-month security deposit is applicable for each lease, amounting to Rs 24.8 crore, Rs 31 crore and Rs 48.3 crore, part of the agreement, Mindspace REIT will provide end-to-end development and turnkey services, including critical power infrastructure and sustainability-aligned solutions for these data centres. Once completed, the five-building data centre campus will span 15 Mumbai's Airoli micro-market has rapidly emerged as a preferred destination for data centre operators due to its proximity to undersea cable landing stations, stable and redundant power availability, renewable energy access and strong infrastructure region has already seen major data centre investments by Amazon Web Services and data localisation norms and a supportive policy framework from the Indian government, international players like PDG are increasingly anchoring large, multi-building campuses in India, placing the country firmly on the global data centre map. Ends
Time of India
05-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Princeton Digital Group leases over 1 million sq ft for data centre hub in Navi Mumbai
Singapore-based global data centre operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has picked up over 1.06 million sq ft of commercial space in Navi Mumbai 's Airoli locality to develop its largest data centre campus in India through a long-term lease of over 20 years. #Pahalgam Terrorist Attack Pakistan's economy has much more to lose than India's due to the ongoing tensions, warns Moody's Ratings The day Pakistan got the power to poke India India demands ADB to stop funds to Pakistan as fallout of Pahalgam terror attack deepens The company's total rental commitment across the three transactions is estimated at Rs 3,745 crore over the lease term, making it one of the most significant leasing deals in India's data centre market. The deals, concluded across three separate lease agreements, form part of a strategic partnership between PDG and K Raheja Corp-backed listed Mindspace Business Parks REIT for a five-building data centre campus within the larger 50-acre Mindspace Airoli West complex. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 1x Playback Rate Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. These are part of PDG's growth plan for India to expand capacity to a total of 230 MW in the country, driving an investment programme of $1 billion. This is part of PDG's new $5 billion investment programme for AI-ready data centres in Asia. Of the new deals, the first lease covers 252,000 sq ft across ground plus seven floors at Rs 2.48 crore per month. The second spans 315,000 sq ft across ground plus six floors with a monthly rent of Rs 3.10 crore, while the third and largest lease covers 491,000 sq ft at Rs 4.83 crore, according to documents accessed through realty data analytics platform Propstack. 'These buildings will be developed in phases and rentals will commence upon delivery of each phase. Accordingly, the total rental payout will also be staggered,' said one of the persons aware of the development. The three leases will collectively add over 1 million sq ft of built-to-suit space at Gigaplex Estate's Airoli Knowledge Park across 22 floors spanning three entire buildings designed to meet the high-density requirements of data centre operations. ET's email queries to PDG and Mindspace REIT remained unanswered until press time. The REIT has already developed two data centres with nearly 0.63 million sq ft for PDG and the new deals will push the total hub size to nearly 1.7 million sq ft. All three leases are structured for a 4% annual escalation for the first 15 years, followed by 5% annual escalation from the 16th year onwards. A 10-month security deposit is applicable for each lease, amounting to Rs 24.8 crore, Rs 31 crore and Rs 48.3 crore, respectively. As part of the agreement, Mindspace REIT will provide end-to-end development and turnkey services, including critical power infrastructure and sustainability-aligned solutions for these data centres. Once completed, the five-building data centre campus will span 15 acres. Navi Mumbai's Airoli micro-market has rapidly emerged as a preferred destination for data centre operators due to its proximity to undersea cable landing stations, stable and redundant power availability, renewable energy access and strong infrastructure backbone. The region has already seen major data centre investments by Amazon Web Services and Google. With data localisation norms and a supportive policy framework from the Indian government, international players like PDG are increasingly anchoring large, multi-building campuses in India, placing the country firmly on the global data centre map. Ends
